Monitoring Measurement Requests

To monitor the status of your Strobe measurement requests:

1. Select Option 3 (STATUS) from the Strobe  Options menu.
2. Press Enter to display the Strobe - Status panel.
3. Press Enter to refresh the list. Strobe updates all the information given for each request, allowing you to monitor the sample counts for your active requests and any change in the status of a request. Scrolling to the right provides you with additional information about the measurement request, as shown in Strobe - Status Panel (Scrolled Right Once). 

The Strobe - Status panel shows the status of each measurement request as follows:

The displayed list is limited to the requests on a specific system that belong to the owner IDs specified in the OWNERID MASK field at the top of the panel. For more information, see Listing by Owner ID.

You can modify any measurement request that appears on the Strobe- Status panel and filter the requests by system or by owner ID. AutoStrobe users can also categorize completed requests that have exceeded one or more specific thresholds. The following table directs you to the sections that describe how to monitor and manage measurement requests.

Strobe - Status Panel

 Strobe - Status Panel (Scrolled Right Once)

 Strobe - Status Panel (Scrolled Right Twice)

The Strobe- Status panel displays the following information for each measurement request.

Scroll to the right once to view the following information:

AutoStrobe only: For all AutoStrobe group and trigger-related requests, scroll to the right twice to view the following information:

Viewing Measurement Requests

You can view the parameters of a measurement request as well as listing them by system and owner ID.

Listing by System

To view the status of measurement requests on a particular system, type the system name in the SYSTEM field.
To view a list of all active systems in the sysplex:

1. Clear the SYSTEM field.
2. Press Enter to display the Strobe - System Selection List panel. On this panel, Strobe lists the active systems in the sysplex on the bottom half of the screen.

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  • To select one or more of these systems, type S to the left of the system name.
  • To exclude one or more systems, type E to the left of the system name.

Strobe - System Selection List Panel

Listing by Owner ID

To control your view of requests on the Strobe - Status panel and the sample data sets that appear on the Strobe - Sample Data Set List panel, you can specify an owner identification in the OWNERID MASK field. You have the following options:

• To view requests for another TSO user, type the user ID or the job name of a batch job that submitted the measurement request. The default is your TSO user ID.
• To view requests submitted either by a group of TSO users whose user IDs begin with the same characters or through batch jobs whose job names begin with a common prefix, type those characters followed by the wildcard character ( *). If you type SA*, for example, Strobe displays all requests submitted by users whose TSO user IDs begin with SA and all requests submitted by batch jobs whose job names begin with SA.

To view all requests, type * (asterisk) in this field or clear the field. When you clear the field, Strobe resets it to your TSO user ID the next time you invoke Strobe.

Setting AutoStrobe Measurement Thresholds

If you have AutoStrobe installed at your site, you can categorize the measurement requests on the Strobe - Status panel by listing those requests that have exceeded specific measurement thresholds.
To set thresholds for measurement requests, complete the following steps:

1. Select Option 3 (STATUS) from the Strobe Options menu.
2. Press Enter to display the Strobe - Status panel.
3. Type Y in the CHANGE THRESHOLDS field.
4. Press Enter to display the Strobe - Threshold Definitions panel.
5. Type the baseline value in any of the threshold fields in the top half of the panel. For example, if you specify two minutes and thirty seconds as a CPU Time threshold,, measurement requests with a CPU time greater than or equal to two minutes and 30 seconds will appear in the Completed Measurement Requests Exceeding Thresholds category on the Strobe - Status panel.
6. Type the names of programs that you do not want the threshold to apply to in the PROGRAM field. Measurements of steps that execute this program will never be displayed in the Completed Measurement Requests Exceeding Thresholds category.
7. Type the names of jobs that you do not want the threshold to apply to in the JOBNAME field.
8. Press Enter to return to the Strobe - Status panel.

Viewing the Parameters of a Measurement Request

To view the measurement parameters that have been supplied for a request:

1. Type V to the left of the request.
2. Press Enter to display a view panel.
3. Press the Up or Down function keys to view all the data. The panel displays the options selected for the request.

The first line of the view panel identifies the request number and the status of the request. The remainder of the view panel is divided into sections that display information about each type of measurement request field. The DATA COLLECTORS, MODULE MAPPING DATA, SESSION MANAGEMENT, and REQUEST RETENTION sections are described further in the section Additional Measurement Options.

HEADER INFORMATION Fields

AutoStrobe only: The following fields apply only to AutoStrobe measurement requests and appear only if the request is an element in a request group.

View Panel for Measurement Request

SYSTEMS REQUESTED Fields

These fields appear only if you are viewing measurement requests in a multisystem environment. The SYSTEMS REQUESTED field lists the systems you identified as potential targets for the measurement request. Systems that you excluded as potential targets for the measurement request appear next to the EXCLUDED field.

CONCURRENT REQUESTS IN CONCURRENT SET NAME Fields (AutoStrobe only)

These fields appear only if you have assigned an AutoStrobe request to be part of a concurrent set and designated it as the trigger request. The CONCURRENT REQUESTS IN CONCURRENT SET NAME fields list the name of the concurrent set to which the request belongs and the request numbers of the other related requests in the concurrent set.

MULTIPLE STEPNAMES Fields (AutoStrobe only)

This part of the view panel appears only if you are an AutoStrobe user and specified multiple steps of the job to be measured.
The MULTIPLE STEPNAMES field is a list of the step numbers, step names, or program names that will be measured as part of this request.
When you submit a single measurement request to measure multiple steps of a job, Strobe creates one measurement session to act as a template request for each job step you specified. As each job step becomes active, Strobe copies the template request and adds an active request (with the same options) for the specified job step.
The template request is never used for an actual measurement session. When all of the job steps have been measured, the template request is marked complete. This field also displays the number of the template request.

SAMPLE DSNAME Fields

This part of the view panel appears only if your system does not use System Managed Storage:

SAMPLE DATA SET SMS PARAMETERS Fields

This part of the view panel appears only if your system uses System Managed Storage:

SAMPLE DATA SET NAME Fields

This section of the view panel appears only when you examine completed, active, or suspended requests:

THRESHOLD Fields (AutoStrobe only)

These fields appear only if you have assigned one or more thresholds on the Strobe - Threshold Definition panel:

DATA COLLECTORS Fields

MODULE MAPPING DATA Fields

SESSION MANAGEMENT Fields

REQUEST RETENTION Fields

The following fields appear only if you have specified a retention period for the measurement request. For information on specifying a request retention period, see Retaining Measurement Requests. 

REQUEST SCHEDULE Fields (AutoStrobe only)

The following columns appear only if you have submitted the AutoStrobe measurement request with a schedule, or if the AutoStrobe request is in a request group that was submitted with a schedule:

AUTO PROFILE JCL Field

This section appears only if you have submitted the measurement request with the automatic profile option and contains the JCL required to produce the Performance Profile.