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Time Periods

Although you usually request Analysis and Performance Evaluation Reports for time intervals of many hours or days, dump reports should cover a much shorter time span.

You can specify the time period to be covered in the command or you can specify a dates file. A dates file enables you to specify a series of days and times for reporting. A dates file is simply an ASCII text file you create that has a filename with a .txt extension and follows a format similar to the following example:

16-APR-2008 10:30,16-APR-2008 10:34
17-APR-2008 10:30,17-APR-2008 10:34
18-APR-2008 10:30,18-APR-2008 10:34

Note that you use one line for each day in ascending order. Any truncated time specification has the value of 0. The following command example shows the /DATES qualifier:

$ ADVISE COLLECT REPORT DUMP_ALL/DATES=dates.txt