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Modify the Scale of the Performance Analysis Panel

By default, the scale on the Performance Analysis panel is 1000. Depending upon the number of automation events that CA OPS/MVS handles at your site, you may want to modify the scale.

For example, on the panel under Accessing the Performance Analysis Panel, most of the events CA OPS/MVS processed are accounted for in bin 05. They are accounted for in this bin because it took CA OPS/MVS between 400 and 500 microseconds to process each of these events. By looking at the Count field, you see that there are 3300 events in bin 05. But without your even having to look at the Count field, a glance at the arrow stretching across the left side of the panel would quickly indicate to you that most events fall into bin 05.

Now look at bin 08. Although the Count field clearly states that there are 108 events in bin 08, no arrow appears on the panel. The absence of the arrow seems to indicate that there are no events that fall into this bin. This contradiction occurs because of the setting of the scale, which does not permit enough detail to be shown for a site where CA OPS/MVS processes relatively few events. If you worked at the site where this sample panel appeared, and you wanted to see more detail of CA OPS/MVS performance activity, you would issue the SCALE command.

The SCALE command has the following syntax:

SCALE {AUTO|n}
AUTO

Adjusts the scale so that the panel displays event processing in thousandths of microseconds. This is the default.

n

Adjusts the scale according to the value of n, which can be 1 or any number that is a multiple of 10. For example, if you specify SCALE 10, the panel displays event processing in tenths of microseconds. The smaller the number you specify for n, the more detail you see on the panel. If you specify an invalid value for n, CA OPS/MVS rounds it up to the next highest multiple of 10.