Strobe Interface Introduction

This part describes Strobe Interface, a product that extends the capabilities of the Strobe Application Performance Measurement System by providing an interface between Strobe and user-written data collector programs. This manual explains how to write data collector programs to gather supplemental performance data.

How This Part Is Organized

Overview of Strobe Interface presents an overview of Strobe Interface.

Data-Collector-Programs describes data collector programs.

Data-Collector-Program-Examples contains sample data collector programs.

How to Use This Part

Read Overview of Strobe Interface for an overview and definition of data collector programs. Read Data-Collector-Programs to learn how to write a data collector program. Data-Collector-Program-Examples provides two sample data collector programs that you can use as bases for your own programs.

You need experience with IBM assembler and job control language (JCL) to write your programs.

 

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