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CA Chorus Infrastructure Management for Networks and Systems

This release of CA SYSVIEW introduces CA Chorus integration. The Time Series Facility collects data that is presented as graphs. New data collection events have been incorporated into CA SYSVIEW to provide this information. New event functions are defined to the scheduler that control the collection.

New scheduler event functions:

Event definitions are defined in the CICSSCHD parmlib member. Data collection and TSF events are defined in the SCHDCICS parmlib member that is dynamically included into the CICSSCHD member.

The parmlib members are only used to create the initial list of events or during a COLD start of the event scheduler. If the event scheduler is being WARM started, the recommended start method, then the list of events is maintained in the persistent data store.

Make ongoing changes to the data collection events through the online displays. The Event Scheduler could be using WARM or COLD start procedures. Ensure that the new events get created regardless of the start type. If the events are not created in the scheduler, data collection is not performed.

If the Event Scheduler is being WARM started, the list of events are retrieved from the persistent data store. In this case, no parmlib members are read. Data collection events must be created because the events were present in the saved list of event definitions. During the initialization process for each data collection task, the task dynamically creates the data collection events. The tasks create or add the data collection events using a method that does not replace or overlay any existing definitions.

Therefore, when you start CA SYSVIEW using a COLD start and the SCHDCICS parmlib member contains the default data collection events, the internal process does not replace the user definitions.

If the user does not want a specific data collection event to execute, mark the event definition as disabled instead of deleting the entry. The integration of CICS data with CA Chorus and the Time Series Facility is enabled through the following CICS configuration option:

Configuration Options - Parmlib member - CICSOPTS

TSF-ENABLE

Specify to enable the Time Series Facility data collection.