Analyzing statistical trends

The following topics explain how to analyze trends in statistics that have been gathered using BMCSTATS or RUNSTATS:

Before you begin

Before you can analyze statistical trends, you must collect statistics from BMCSTATS, RUNSTATS, or some other source.

See Collecting-viewing-and-managing-statistics, which describes the statistics and how to collect them.

Important

When DASD MANAGER PLUS executes SQL that uses an ORDER BY clause against the Db2 catalog, the query uses a Unicode collating sequence to sort data. The query typically uses the same sequence to display the data on panels and in reports. However, when DASD MANAGER PLUS sorts the data retrieved from the Db2 Catalog queries, the product displays sorted data on panels and in reports in an EBCDIC collating sequence.

 

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