2. PERFORMANCE REPORTING ANALYSIS › 2.3 Auxiliary Storage Management Analysis › 2.3.6 Component Operation
2.3.6 Component Operation
This Component Operation Section describes the online inquiry
panels required for the operation of Auxiliary Storage
Management Analysis routines.
Entries in the online inquiry panels define the types of
reports to be generated. In particular, these panels define:
o The cycles from the CA MICS SCPPSD and HARDVA Files
to be processed.
o The summarization level of the report as hourly,
daily, weekly, or monthly. If you have selected the
DETAIL timespan, the data is summarized based on the
length of your RMF interval. Note that the
availability of each summarization level assumes that
your system supports the required files at each level.
o The type of report to be produced.
In addition to the timespan qualifier, a summarization
option is provided in the form of ZONE and HOUR
specification. You can specify summarization to the ZONE
level for all timespans, and to the HOUR level for the WEEKS
or DAYS timespan, with the Report by Hour and the Generate a
report for each value of Zone options.
If you specify the DAYs timespan and HOUR summarization, and
you request multiple cycles, a separate report is produced
for each day. If you do not specify a summarization
parameter, the report is summarized to the timespan level
(i.e., MONTHS is summarized to the month, WEEKS to the week,
DAYS to the day, and DETAIL to the RMF interval).
The Auxiliary Storage Management reports provided are:
o ASM Page/Swap Activity Report - Describes the activity
and response for each data set found in the SCPPSD
File.
o ASM Page/Swap Response Time Report - Reports the
device response of each data set found in the SCPPSD
File.
The following options are common to both control panels:
Timespan: The timespan (DETAIL, DAYS, WEEKS, or MONTHS)
of the CA MICS file(s) that you wish to use as
input for processing.
Cycle(s): One or more cycles of the CA MICS files
that you want to use for analysis. Because SMF
data sets are not normally dumped at exactly
midnight at most installations, a cycle from the
CA MICS database will usually contain a 24-hour
period spanning two days. Hence, some other
type of selection may be required to generate a
daily report. This selection capability is
provided by the DATE and HOUR options.
Database: The single-character CA MICS identifier for the
database to be accessed. Valid values are the
database unit identifiers available at your
installation. Contact your CA MICS System
Administrator if you do not know what database
units are available, or enter a question mark
(?) to view a list of your database units. You
can select up to five databases per inquiry.
Allow The indication of whether the database
Run-Time identifier and/or the Cycles specification can
Override: be overridden at inquiry execution time.
Report by The indication of whether a report should be
hour: generated for each hour. This is only valid for
the DAYS or WEEKS timespans.
Generate a The indication of whether an individual report
report for should be generated for each zone found in the
each value input data or whether all zones should be merged
of Zone: together for the report.
Date: Up to two date ranges (DDMONYY format) to be
used for analysis. This option is normally used
to drop the extra day from a cycle that is due
to the timing of the SMF dump.
Hour: One to three ranges of hours for which data is
to be reported. For an individual hour, leave
the end hour blank or make it the same as the
start hour. You can specify a value from 00 to
23.
Zone: The specification that zone selection is to be
applied. If zone 1 definition is 8:00 a.m. to
6:00 p.m., you can specify reports covering that
time period by entering a 1 in the ZONE field.
Sysid: The specification that SYSIDs are to be selected
for reporting. You can enter up to six SYSIDs
to be selected. If you leave the field blank,
no testing of SYSIDs will be done.
Specify The specification that allows you to supply
extended additional report options. These options
options: include special SAS data selection statements
and non-standard input and output files.
The operation of the zone and time selection options depends
on definitions made during the installation of the CA MICS
system. If you are not sure about the ZONE definitions for
your installation or the CA MICS database update procedures,
consult your CA MICS System Administrator.
Use the Auxiliary Storage Management (ASM) Analysis panel
shown in Figure 2-78 to select the ASM report you want.
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| Composing CA MICS Inquiry: TEST1 - Run ASM data set reports |
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| Report page/swap data set workload and performance |
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| 2 - ASM Page/Swap Response Report |
| Report page/swap data set I/O request response time. |
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Figure 2-78. ASM Analysis Selection Panel
The following sections describe the control panels for each
ASM report:
1 - ASM Page/Swap Activity Report
2 - ASM Page/Swap Response Time Report
