Event Capture Option › Data Source for Event Capture › Capture a Group of Commands

Capture a Group of Commands

Though a captured event can be a single command display, it is more useful to capture a group or list of commands as one event. The list of commands to execute are defined and stored in a member of the CAPLIB data set. This member is a simple text member containing a list of commands.

Follow these steps:

The following steps let Event Capture monitor common storage information.

1. Create a member named CSA in the CAPLIB data set.

   The CSA member is referred to as the CSA event.

2. Enter a list of CA SYSVIEW command displays that you want to have captured in the CSA CAPLIB member.

   For example, the CSA member can contain the following commands:

   • COMMON SUMMARY

     Displays overall summary of common storage usage for the system.

   • VSMTRACK SUMMARY

     Displays orphaned common storage summary by address space.

   • ACTIVITY

     Displays list of active address spaces.

   • SORT CSA D LIMIT 25

     Sort address space list by CSA usage in a descending order. Limit the display to the top 25 biggest users of CSA.

3. Trigger the CSA event using any of the collection methods described in the previous section.

The group of commands are captured.