FICON Director Activity Report

The FICON Director Activity Report provides configuration and activity information for all FICON Directors (switches) to which the system was connected when the Extractor recorded the data.

You can use this report to see how each FICON switch was configured and how it was being utilized

The FICON Director Activity Report is produced by using the FICONSW Analyzer control statement. This report processes SMF 74-7 records that are created by the FCSW sampler. That sampler is started by the FICONSW Extractor control statement.

This report consists of two sections:

IODF Section
The Input/Output Definition File (IODF) is a VSAM linear data set that contains I/O definition information. This section of the report identifies the number and name of the IODF that was in use at the time the data was collected by the Extractor.
FICON Director Section
This section of the report displays information about each FICON switch that was detected. This section also displays information about all of the ports that are assigned to each switch and how each port was being utilized during the recording period.

Important

The information shown for each port includes all of the I/O that is directed through this port, regardless of which system requests the I/O. That is, the measurements shown are not specific or limited to the system on which the Extractor gathered and recorded the measurements.

An example of the FICON Director Activity Report is shown in the following figure.

PRODUCED BY CMF ANALYZER (v.r.mm RSL yymm )                   FICON DIRECTOR ACTIVITY REPORT                      RPTSEQ     3 PAGE      5
BMC SOFTWARE, INC.                                          BMC ENGINEERING                             REPORT DATE: DD MMM YY 10.52
ACTL 25 OCT YY 16.25.00 25 OCT YY 17.24.28                                                             SYSTEM ID: SJSC     Z v.rr.n

BASED ON REC TYPE/# RECS/# SAMPLES/REC HOURS: 74-7/24/12/0.99

----------------------------------------------------------- IODF SECTION -----------------------------------------------------------
IODF SUFFIX: 03   CREATED: 09/29/YYYY - 16.21.34   IODF DSN: BMCS.IODF03
ACTIVATED: IPL        CHANGED THIS REPORT PERIOD: NO

------------------------------------------------------ FICON DIRECTOR SECTION ------------------------------------------------------

SWITCH DEVICE: 0105   SWITCH ID: 61   TYPE: 006140   MODEL: 001   MFR: MCD   PLANT: 01   SERIAL: 00000131278E

PORT     -CONNECTION-     AVG. FRAME     --AVG. FRAME SIZE--     TRANSFER RATE(MB/SEC)     ERROR
ADDR      TYPE    ID      PACING(MS)       READ       WRITE        READ        WRITE       COUNT
--      ------ ----      ----------     -------     -------     --------     --------     -----

04      CU      ----              0         644       1,546        0.118        0.443         0
05      ------ ----              0       1,604         181        0.187        0.009         0
06      ------ ----              0       1,515          53        0.019            0         0
07      ------ ----              0       1,518       1,041        0.119        0.067         0
08      ------ ----              0           0           0            0            0         0
09      ------ ----              0       1,497         553        0.117        0.030         0
0A      ------ ----              0          68       1,911            0        0.011         0
0B      ------ ----              0           0           0            0            0         0
0C      CHP-H     E8              0       1,645          73        2.162        0.026         0
0D      CHP-H     E9              0       1,961          76        2.314        0.007         0
0E      CHP-H     EA              0       1,661          68        3.945        0.044         0
0F      CU      ----              0          68       1,645        0.024        2.162         0
10      CU      ----              0          76       1,961        0.007        2.314         0
11      CU      ----              0          68       1,661        0.044        3.945         0
12      CHP-H     E2              0       1,798       1,202        1.036        0.198         0
13      CHP-H     E4              0       1,799       1,220        1.037        0.204         0
14      CU      ----              0       1,202       1,798        0.198        1.036         0
15      CU      ----              0       1,220       1,799        0.204        1.037         0
16      CHP-H     F3              0         465       1,002        1.480        3.984         0
17      CHP-H     F4              0         455       1,002        1.427        3.944         0
18      CU      ----              0       1,002         465        3.984        1.480         0
19      CU      ----              0       1,002         455        3.944        1.427         0
1A      CHP-H     F0              0         263         989        1.075        3.362         0
1B      CU      ----              0         997         264        3.356        1.073         0
1C      CHP-H     F1              0         258       1,002        1.052        3.409         0
1D      CU      ----              0       1,002         258        3.409        1.052         0
1E      CHP       F0              0       1,060         640        0.816        0.330         0
1F      CU      ----              0         656       1,079        0.325        0.814         0
20      CHP       F2              0         765         924        0.828        0.892         0
21      CHP       F3              0           0           0            0            0         0
22      CU      ----              0       1,474         473        6.771        0.904         0
23      CHP       F0              0          92       1,621        0.038        2.937         0
24      CHP       E5              0           0           0            0            0         0
25      CHP       F2              0          92       1,621        0.038        2.942         0
26      CHP       F4              0          71         171            0            0         0

FICON Director Activity Report field descriptions

The table below describes each field in the FICON Director Activity Report.

Field	Description
IODF Section
IODF SUFFIX	two-character hexadecimal suffix for the IODF data set name
CREATED	date and time that this IODF data set was created
IODF DSN	data set name of the IODF
ACTIVATED	text indicating how this IODF was activated
CHANGED THIS REPORT PERIOD	text indicating whether the IODF was changed during this reporting period
FICON Director Section
SWITCH DEVICE	four-digit hexadecimal address of the FICON switch
SWITCH ID	two-digit hexadecimal switch ID that is associated with this FICON switch Important The SWITCH ID of cascaded switches is shown as ‘**’.
TYPE	device type of the FICON switch
MODEL	model number of the FICON switch
MFR	manufacturer of the FICON switch
PLANT	plant number where the FICON switch was manufactured
SERIAL	serial number of the FICON switch
PORT ADDRESS	hexadecimal address of the port on the FICON switch
CONNECTION TYPE	identifies the type of connection; the values that you can see are as follows: CHP—denotes a channel path CHP-H—denotes a channel path of the system on which the Extractor gathered and recorded the data CU—denotes a control unit SWITCH—denotes a switch If the unit is not unique, dashes are displayed. For example, for CTC channels there might be a CU and a CHP connected to the same port.
CONNECTION ID	hexadecimal identifier of the connector; dashes are shown if the connection type is SWITCH, CU, or is not unique
AVG. FRAME PACING (MS)	average time (in milliseconds) that a frame had to wait before it could be transmitted during the report period Important While the unit of time on the report is milliseconds, it is displayed in four decimal places, the equivalent of tenths of microseconds.
AVG. FRAME SIZE	average frame sizes (in bytes) used in reads and writes during this report period
TRANSFER RATE (MB/SEC)	rate (in million bytes per second) that data was read and written during the report period
ERROR COUNT	number of errors that were encountered during the report period

FICON Director Activity Report

FICON Director Activity Report field descriptions

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