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Include and Exclude Tasks

A subtask is a uniquely dispatchable unit of work within z/OS. Some jobs might have active serial subtasks to perform various work for the application.

Use the Tasks to include field to restrict monitoring to specific subtasks within the address space. Specify up to four tasks to be sampled in a multitasking environment.

Use the Tasks to exclude field to omit up to four tasks from sampling in a multitasking environment. You might not want to monitor all subtasks within the address space if their functions have nothing to do with your application.

Use the * wildcard character to match multiple characters and the + wildcard character to match any single character.

After sampling is complete and you begin your analysis, use TaskView to display a list of the tasks that are monitored by CA Mainframe Application Tuner. See "Interactive Analysis Option 1 - TaskView" for more information.

If the Tasks to include field on the Job Monitoring Criteria panel contains an entry for DSNECP10, only one sample can be collected per observation taken into the region.