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CA SYSVIEW for DB2 Component

A new DB2 component has been added to CA SYSVIEW to allow a user to monitor DB2 subsystems. The monitoring is provided through integration with the product CA Insight for DB2. Verify that you have the product CA Insight for DB2 licensed and installed.

zIIP Exploitation

IBM offers an optional specialty processor type know as a z/architecture Integrated Information Processor (zIIP processor). The zIIP processor offers the potential of offloading specific types of work from a general processor or CP.

The following CA SYSVIEW components are enabled for zIIP exploitation:

• CA SYSVIEW Main Services Address Space
• CA SYSVIEW User Interface Address Space
• CA SYSVIEW Auxiliary Services Address Space
• CA SYSVIEW for CICS Data Collection

CA SYSVIEW zIIP Exploitation requires the CA zIIP Enablement Services of CAIRIM.

Note: For more information, see the Administration Guide.

Data Collection

The CA SYSVIEW data collection process collects and monitors metrics for all of supported components such as: z/OS, CICS, IMS, WebSphere MQ, and TCP/IP.

Data collection includes event-based and interval driven sampling.

The CA SYSVIEW Event Scheduler controls the data collection processes as follows:

• The scheduler provides the ability to schedule events on an interval basis.
• The scheduled event definitions can be customized to control the collection interval. For example, the time of day and day of the week.
• The scheduler controls the data that is being collected and how often.

In addition to being able to set the data collection frequency, you can select the individual metrics that are collected. The CA SYSVIEW data collector components collect, monitor, and provide exception processing for many resources and metrics.

In some sites, users do not collect data on all possible resources and metrics. In this situation, the collection of unwanted metrics wastes important system resources and CPU cycles.

Disabling unneeded data collection metrics reduces CPU cycles and the amount of storage the data collection data spaces uses. The reduction in data space storage reduces the amount of real storage the SYSVAAST data anchor address space uses.

Note: For more information, see the Administration Guide.

For more information, see the following online help topics:

• Data collection the CA SYSVIEW scheduler controls
• Enable and disable data collection