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Alerts and Jobinfo Panel

To filter the data that is listed on the panel, use the Jobname, State, or UserID fields described in Field Descriptions.

Primary Commands

Primary commands can be used as follows:

REV

Displays alerts with STATE = REV.

OPEN

Displays all alerts.

RECENT

Displays the most recent occurrence of each alert.

SORT

Sorts alerts. For details about how to use the SORT command, see Sorting List Panels

BULK DELETE

Deletes all alerts on the current alert list that match your selection criteria.

Enter BULK DELETE in the command line and press Enter. Then confirm your action in the confirmation panel that appears if you are sure you want to delete the alert entries.

Line Commands

Line commands can be used to work with a specific alert that displays in the list.

AT

Displays the Total Alert Text panel.

AO

Displays the Alert Overview panel.

MO

Displays the Measurement Overview panel.

AN

Provides the interface to the CA Mainframe Application Tuner Analyze Normal function.

This function is only executable as long as the corresponding monitor data set has not been deleted. For details about the appropriate parameter settings, refer to the "Global measurement data set processing" section of the Administration Guide.

JO

Displays the Job Overview panel.

S

Shows the alert.

R

Changes the state to REV, which permits alert text edits and review.

C

Closes an alert. The state is changed to CUSE and can no longer be reviewed.

D

Deletes an alert.

I

Inserts a new alert. For more information, see Insert an Alert.

O

Displays the Overtake Functions panel. You can clear, recalculate, or set the statistical values for the selected job step. See Overtake Functions for more information.

Field Descriptions
Jobname

Specify the actual job name or generic job name.

To control the list of alerts being displayed, enter an actual job name or a generic job name. Generic character asterisk (*) can be used to list all alerts for all job names or to limit the list of alerts to a generic group of jobs.

State

Enter the state of the alerts to be displayed to reduce the list of alerts to a specific state.

You can enter a valid state code, the first letter of the state code plus an asterisk, or an asterisk alone to see all states of alert.

Style

Select the alert information style that you want to see:

Style = A is the normal alert list, which shows you the full alert information.

Style = J shows the basic alert information combined with the average job step consumption values.

For a complete list of all state codes, see the following table.

UserID

Enter a full user ID or a generic user ID string, such as CRIT*, to control the list of alerts that are displayed.

Column Descriptions
Jobname/Stepname/Procstep

Displays the job name, step name, procedure step name, and module for which the alert is issued.

The module name is the application module name if available. Otherwise, it is the JCL PGM name.

State

Displays the current state of the alert. For a complete list of all state codes, see the table in Alert Management.

Reason

Displays the current reason for the alert. Valid codes are listed in the following table.

AID

Displays a unique alert identification for each alert.

Issue Date

Displays the date the alert was issued.

No. Al.

Displays the number of alerts for this job step.

If more than one alert exists for this job step and you want to delete them all, each alert must be individually deleted by using line command D.

UserID

Displays the user ID of job for which the alert is issued.

Avg CPU

Displays the average of CPU time consumed by the job step.

Avg ELPS

Displays the average of elapsed (session) time.

Avg SRVU

Displays the average of total service units.

FRQ/Year

Displays the estimated annual number of executions of the job step.

IM

Displays the importance of job step.

The higher the number means the more resource consumption was calculated.

Reason Code

Short Description

Long Description

USER

User

A user initiated an alert.

ELPS/SRVU

Elapsed time/

Service units

The alert resulted from a statistical calculation of absolute consumption values for elapsed time or service units.

SUIO/ELIOS

SUEL

Performance indexes

The alert resulted from a statistical calculation of consumption values for performance indexes, that is the quotients of elapsed time/EXCPs (ELIO), service units/EXCPs (SUIO) or service units/elapsed time (SUEL).

ALTH

Alert Threshold

One of the consumption values of the SMF30 record (subtype 4) of a job exceeded the defined thresholds for this job.

MODC

Module Changed

A changed module was detected. The job step for which the alert was issued is the one that most recently executed the changed application program. If more than one job step executes the changed module, the most important one is selected.

TEXT

Text only

If no measurement is requested, a user can perform a text-only alert. See Insert an Alert.

CHCK

Checkpoint Writing

A user initiated an alert for checkpoint writing. No measurement is requested.