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The reporting function provides online and printed reports based on information in the event database. If you want to use the reporting function, you must activate the recording of file transfer events into the events database.
Note: If you want to use the default values of the event logging parameters, you do not need to perform this task.
The reporting function also lets you extract the data for analysis by exporting it in character separated value (CSV) format for use by other data analysis and reporting tools.
To implement event recording
The Customization Parameters panel appears.
The Initialization Parameters panel for event logging appears.
Ensure this field is set to Yes.
Enter the data set name to which events are to be logged, or use the default. The setup process created this VSAM data set. For more information, see the Installation Guide.
Events are retained in this database for the number of days that you specify on this panel.
Note: You should monitor the size of the EVNTDB database. When the EVNTDB database reaches the file size limit, automatic reorganization occurs.
The utilization of data and index blocks is shown in message N13522 in the activity log when the region is initialized.
Specify the time of day (in the format hh.mm; default 00.15) at which reported events are to be deleted from the database and, if an EVNTARC archive data set is specified, archived to that data set.
Note: If the region is not active at the specified time, deletion does not occur.
Specify the number of days (between 0 and 30; default 7) for which reported events are to be kept in the EVNTDB database.
Zero deletes all events. A value between 1 and 30 retains events from the previous 1 to 30 calendar days in the EVNTDB database.
Note: Keeping a lot of data online impacts the time to search for events.
Enter the name of the data set (which can be a data set in a generation data group (GDG)) to which events are to be archived, or leave the field at its default value. The default is a sequential data set that was created by the setup process. For more information, see the Installation Guide.
If you use a generation data set, use a relative generation number of +1 (for example, gdg-name(+1)). You must also complete the next panel. For more information about the fields, see the online help.
If you need to increase the size of the EVNTDB database, ensure that the size of the EVNTARC data set is also increased, so that EVNTARC does not fill up during the archiving process.
If the archiving process fails, the records are still cleared from EVNTDB.
If you omit the event archive data set name, then old records are simply deleted when they expire.
Specify the character you want to separate archived events. The default is comma (,).
Events are written to the event archive data set as character separated values, which can be processed by PC-based reporting tools. As well as having data from the log periodically archived in this way, you can also extract data from the EVNTDB database on an ad hoc basis for processing and analysis.
Enter the name of the sequential data set that is to be used for backup during reorganization of the EVNTDB, or leave the default. The setup process created the default. For more information, see the Installation Guide.
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