Overview of the Analysis Summary report

This information is useful for purposes such as these:

• If you do not have much information about the contents of the input log record sources (SLDSs, OLDSs and input extract data sets that were created by a previous analysis job), this report gives you a general idea about the IMS traffic that is represented and whether specified time ranges and log record sources are appropriate for your purposes. This information can help you if Log Analyzer has allocated log sources automatically from information in the RECONs and you are not familiar with the characteristics of the sources that were allocated.
• If you are developing a set of filter criteria, this report shows you the types, quantities, and characteristics of records that Log Analyzer has included and excluded, based on the filter criteria. You can use the report to determine whether the appropriate records have been included for your purposes and whether enough records have been excluded so that you can analyze the included records interactively or manually with a reasonable amount of time and effort.
• If you do not know the exact identity of an origin, destination, user ID, or other characteristic of a LUOW that might be useful for your purposes, the report provides a list of candidates for more study.
• If you do not know where and how to start diagnosing a problem, the report gives you a broad view of conditions surrounding the problem.

Log Analyzer produces the Analysis Summary report and writes it to the SUMMARY data set when you specify the SUMMARY keyword on the REPORTS control statement or when you omit the REPORTS control statement. For more information, see SUMMARY-keyword.