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Structure and Parts of Variable Names

Report variables have the following format:

[system] [record-type] variable-class variable-name

system

Specifies the system of the variable. Valid values are as follows:

CICS

Signals to the Report Writer that the variable is a CA SYSVIEW-based CICS variable.

IMS

Signals that the variable is a CA SYSVIEW-based IMS variable.

MQ

Signals that the variable is a CA SYSVIEW-based MQ variable.

AUDIT

Signals that the variable is a CA SYSVIEW-based AUDIT variable.

COMMON

Signals that the variable is a CA SYSVIEW-based variable common for all systems.

MVS

Signals to the Report Writer that the variable is a z/OS system variable.

Default: CICS

record-type

Specifies the type of record the data for that variable comes from. You can specify one of the following:

JOB

Provides job activity information.

PERformance

Provides task activity information.

REQuest

Provides information about MQ objects and message counts.

STEP

Provides activity information for the last interval before the step terminate, and activity after the previous interval ended.

SUMmary

For CICS variables, provides information from data created with the SUMMARIZE utility option.

For IMS variables, provides information from IMS region summary records.

SYStem

For CICS variables, provides information from system threshold records.

For MVS variables, provides information from MVS system records.

INTerval

Provides CICS resource usage information. The collection of this data is based upon user-defined time intervals and involves low overhead.

LOG

Provides CA SYSVIEW Audit Event records information.

EXCEPTION

Provides CA SYSVIEW exception records information.

The default record type for all CICS and IMS variables is PERformance and for all MVS variables is SYStem. The record type that a variable represents affects which ID options can be used with it to limit the scope of a report.

Note: For more information about JOB and STEP record types, see the section JOB and STEP Record Type Data.

variable-class

Specifies one of the variable classes. For example, TRANSACTION and DATASET are both valid variable classes for the PERformance record type.

variable-name

Specifies a variable name from the variable class selected. For example, both USE and LIFETIME are valid variable names for the variable class TRANSACTION.