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3.1.2 TSO Tracking Reports

The TSO Tracking Reports provide technical personnel with
individual TSO terminal, user, or system information to meet
daily activity tracking and performance measurement needs.
These reports provide information to quantify TSO
performance, measure the results of tuning changes, identify
TSO problem areas, and analyze user problems.  They are run
using the CA MICS Information Center Facility (MICF). All
these reports use multiple run-time parameters.  You can
customize each run of the report or save the parameters in
anticipation of future runs.


DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE CA MICS TSO TRACKING REPORTS AND
TSO/MON TRACKING REPORTS

While the CA MICS TSO Tracking Reports replicate the TSO/MON
Tracking Reports as closely as possible, there are certain
differences.

 o  Instances of No Activity

    The TSO/MON reports that list their data in a tabular
    format by time periods include a line of zeros when there
    is no activity to report during the reporting increment.
    The CA MICS TSO Analyzer, however, prints a line of data
    only when there is data to report.  This will cause the
    CA MICS version of the report to appear to be different
    from the TSO/MON version of the report even though the
    report contains the same data.

 o  Data Differences

    - TIOC Values

      The CA MICS TSO TIOC value is always reported from the
      system level (TSOMTIOC), and cannot be recomputed at
      the user level.

    - Maximum Users, Think Time, and Total Time

      The TSOTSU file does not retain observations that
      contain no resource usage.  For this reason, a user who
      is logged on but does not use the enter key at least
      once during the interval will not have an observation
      on the file for that interval.  This can affect the
      report data in several ways as noted below.

      The maximum user count, when reported from the system
      level (TSOTSO file, TSOMXUSR), gives a true high-water
      mark value.  The Activity Report that inquiry TSOLX1
      produces, and the Profile Report that inquiry TSOLD2
      produces report a true high-water mark from the TSOTSO
      file.  However, all of the other reports, which show a
      count of users, do so from the user level (TSOTSU file)
      and, therefore, report only a count of the users who
      were active on the system.

      The TSOTSU file cannot accurately do any reporting that
      requires total think time or the total amount of time
      that a terminal was in use.  This means that ranking
      reports cannot be produced that rank by characters per
      second, think time, or length of time the terminal was
      active.  This also means that ranking reports will not
      report think time, active index, and characters per
      second by TGET and TPUT.  The average medium and
      average total response times have been added to the
      network activity, network profile, and user ranking
      reports in place of the think time and active index
      values.  CPU time and EXCP counts have also been added
      to the user ranking report in place of the characters
      per second by TGET and TPUT.


 o  Report Parameters

    When the inquiry executes, it writes customer-specified
    run-time parameters to both the MICSLOG and SAS LOG.  The
    report footnotes also identify the run-time options that
    you select.

    The paired INCLUDE and EXCLUDE parameter specifications
    in the CA MICS inquiries are NOT mutually exclusive as
    they are with TSO/MON.  For instance, you can now specify
    a group of users to be included on the report and, at the
    same time, identify an individual user(s) to be excluded
    from the selected group.  This capability is available
    for selection of the following:

    - command names
    - library names
    - program names
    - terminal IDs
    - users IDs

    Example - You might wish to include all users whose user
              IDs begin with ABC0 and, at the same time,
              exclude users ABC0300 and ABC0301.  You do this
              by specifying:

                    Users to be included
                           ABC0:
                    Users to be excluded
                          ABC0300 ABC0301


The following sections contain descriptions of the reports:

    1 - TSO Activity Report
    2 - TSO Profile Report
    3 - TSO Network Activity Report
    4 - TSO Network Profile Report
    5 - TSO Command Use Counts Report
    6 - TSO User Ranking Report
    7 - TSO Terminal Ranking Report
    8 - TSO Command Activity Report
    9 - TSO Program Activity Report
   10 - TSO Workload Response Report
   11 - TSO Workload Paging Report
   12 - TSO Workload Swapping Report