Making a monitor service request


Perform the following steps to request a monitor service:

  1. Type SM or MONSERV on the COMMAND line of any view and press Enter.The Start Monitors (SM or MONSERV) view is displayed, as shown in Start Monitors view (SM or MONSERV). The Start Monitors view lists all available monitors.

    To learn about a monitor service, in the CMD field next to the service, type H and press Enter. A description of the service, its parameters, and the syntax of its warning message are displayed. For a brief description of the monitors, see IMS-workload-monitors and IMS-resource-monitors.

    To learn about a field on the Start Monitors view, position the cursor on the field and press the Help key.

                                  Monitor Services                           
      Commands:  BLK (Requests)  JOURNAL (Log Display)                        
      Line CMDs: S (Select),   L (Lock),   U (unlock),   H(Help)                 
                                                                                 
    CMD Service  Num    Title                        Parm Type       Area   Status
    --- -------  Actv   --------------------------   --------------  -----  ------
        $CBMP           TOTAL BMP CALLS              (IDENTIFIER)    IWGBL         
        $CDBT           TOTAL DBT (CICS) CALLS       (IDENTIFIER)    IWGBL         
        $CMPP           TOTAL MPP CALLS              (IDENTIFIER)    IWGBL         
        $CTOT           TOTAL PROGRAM CALLS          (IDENTIFIER)    IWGBL         
        #CDB2           DB2 DATABASE CALLS           (IDENTIFIER)    IWDB2         
        #CIC            CI CONTENTIONS               (IDENTIFIER)    IWFP          
        #OBAW           OVERFLOW BUFFER WAITS        (IDENTIFIER)    IWFP          
        #PROC           TRANS PROCESSED              (IDENTIFIER)    IWTRN         
        #SDB2           DB2 SPECIAL CALLS            (IDENTIFIER)    IWDB2         
        @CRSP           AVG IMS CONNECT RESPONSE     (IDENTIFIER)    IWTRN         
        @ELAP       1   AVG ELAPSED TIME             (IDENTIFIER)    IWTRN         
        @INPQ           AVG INPUT Q TIME             (IDENTIFIER)    IWTRN         
      F1=HELP      F2=SPLIT     F3=END       F4=RETURN    F5=RFIND     F6=RCHANGE   
      F7=UP        F8=DOWN      F9=SWAP     F10=LEFT     F11=RIGHT    F12=RETRIEVE
  2. In the CMD field next to the service that you want to start, type S and press Enter.The Start Workload Monitor dialog box is displayed. For more information, see Start Workload Monitor dialog box.

    Depending on the type of monitor service selected (see Types-of-monitor-services), the Specify Workload Selections section might not be displayed and the exact workload selection fields listed varies.

    .-------------------------- Start Workload Monitor ---------------------------.
    | COMMAND ===>                                              SCROLL ===> CSR   |
    |                                                                             |
    |                      @ELAP - AVG ELAPSED TIME                               |
    | Monitor Attributes:                                                         |
    | PARM              (Identifier)          START          (hh:mm:ss)           |
    | INTERVAL 00:01:00 (hh:mm:ss)            STOP           (hh:mm:ss/mins)      |
    | WVAL              (Warning value)       WIF   1        (Intvls to 1st msg)  |
    | WMSG              (Log warnings to)     WIN   1        (Message Intervals)  |
    | WLIM     10       (Warnings limit)      RST   HOT      (HOT,PUR,QIS)        |
    |                                         QIS   YES      (YES/NO)             |
    | TITLE   AVERAGE ELAPSED TIME                                                |
    | PLOTMAX                              (Maximum PLOT X-Axis value)            |
    | RANGES                               (1-4 Range Distr. Upper Limits)        |
    | LOG                                  (NO,ATSTOP,ATPD,ATINTVL,ATWARN)        |
    |                                                                             |
    | Specify Workload Inclusion Selections:                                      |
    |  PGMTYPE                    (MPP, BMP, MDP, NDP, FPU, TPI, DBT, NOTDBT)     |
    |  TRANTYPE                   (DLI, DB2, FP)                                  |
    |  TRAN                                                                       |
    |  PROG                                                                       |
    |  PSB                                                                        |
    |  CLASS                                                                      |
    |  REGION                                                                     |
    |  RGNID                                                                      |
    |  USERID                                                                     |
    |  TMEM                       (OTMA member or IMS Connect name)               |
    |  TERM                       (name, TPIPE, APPC, SYNCLOCK, MSCCLOCK,         |
    |                              IMSCON, MQS)                                   |
    | Specify Workload Exclusion Selections:                                      |
    |  XTRAN                                                                      |
    |  XPROG                                                                      |
    |  XPSB                                                                       |
    |  XCLASS                                                                     |
    |  XREGION                                                                    |
    |  XUSERID                                                                    |
    |  XTERM                       (name, TPIPE, APPC, SYNCLOCK, MSCCLOCK,        |
    |                               IMSCON, MQS)                                  |
    |                                                                             |
    |                                                                             |
    | ENTER to process the request                                                |
    | END to cancel the request                                                   |
    | HELP to display related help                                                |
    '-----------------------------------------------------------------------------'
  3. Specify the monitor service criteria:

    Field

    Description

    Default

    PARM

    Unique name for the request

    Blanks

    START

    When to start the monitor service

    Next full minute

    INTERVAL

    Time interval between successive service invocations

    Not applicable

    STOP

    When to stop the monitor service

    24 hours

    WVAL

    Warning threshold for the monitor request

    0, no warnings

    WIF

    Number of intervals before the first warning message

    1

    WMSG

    Where the warning messages are to be sent

    LOG

    WIN

    Number of intervals between warning messages

    1

    WLIM

    Maximum number of warning messages

    Important

    You can specify -1 to receive an unlimited number of warning messages for a monitor at regular intervals. The default interval is 60 seconds.

    10

    RST

    Restart option to be used when a service is quiesced because of an inactive target region

    HOT

    QIS

    Action to be taken when an IMS target is not active

    YES

    TITLE

    Display title for the monitor service (see Monitor-request-title)

    Name of the service

    PLOTMAX

    Maximum value to be shown on the X-axis boundary for a PLOT of this monitor request

    Not applicable

    RANGES

    One to four upper-range limit values for the PLOT range distribution

    No range

    LOG

    Logging option specification for the monitor service

    No logging

    Specify Workload Selections

    Criteria used to limit or filter monitor data collection to a specific part of the IMS workload

    For specific fields that are listed, see the online Help.

    Not applicable

    For additional information about a field, press  F1 for online Help.

  4. Specify workload inclusion and exclusion criteria:

    Keyword

    Exclusion keyword

    Description

    PGMTYPE

    NA

    Qualifies a monitor request by program type

    The default is all types. You can specify multiple types:

    • MPP—message processing program
    • BMP—batch message processing program
    • MDP—Fast Path message-driven processing
    • NDP—Fast Path non-message-driven processing
    • FPU—Fast Path utility program
    • TPI—CPI-C driven program
    • DBT—DBCTL thread program
    • NOTDBT—selects programs that do no use a DBCTL thread

    TRANTYPE

    NA

    Qualifies a monitor request by transaction type

    The default is all types. You can specify multiple types:

    • Db2—transactions that access Db2
    • DLI—transactions that make DL/I database calls
    • FP—transactions that make Fast Path database calls

    TRAN

    XTRAN

    Qualifies a monitor request by including (TRAN) or excluding (XTRAN) specified IMS or CICS transaction

    Valid entries are 1- to 8-character alphanumeric transaction codes. Multiple transaction codes can be specified with a positional qualifier. For CICS DBCTL transactions, use the CICS transaction code. For Fast Path transactions, use the routing code assigned by the DBFHAGUO exit routine.

    PROG

    XPROG

    Qualifies a monitor request by including (PROG) or excluding (XPROG) specified programs

    Valid entries are 1- to 8-character alphanumeric program names. You can specify multiple program names with a positional qualifier.

    PSB

    XPSB

    Qualifies a monitor request by including (PSB) or excluding (XPSB) specified IMS program specification blocks

    Valid entries are 1- to 8-character alphanumeric PSB names. You can specify multiple PSB names with a positional qualifier.

    CLASS

    XCLASS

    Qualifies a monitor request by including (CLASS) or excluding (XCLASS) numeric scheduling classes

    Multiple classes can be specified as CLASS 1 2 3. The default includes all IMS scheduling classes.

    REGION

    XREGION

    Qualifies a monitor request by including (REGION) or excluding (XREGION) specified IMS region job names

    Valid entries are 1- to 8-character alphanumeric region job names. You can specify multiple region job names with a positional qualifier.

    RGNID

    NA

    Qualifies a monitor request by specified region ID Enter a 1- to 3-character numeric region ID from 1 to nnn, where nnn is a valid region number. You can specify multiple region IDs with a positional qualifier.

    USERID

    XUSERID

    Qualifies a monitor request by including (USERID) or excluding (XUSERID) specified IMS sign-on user IDs

    Valid entries are 1- to 8-character alphanumeric IMS sign-on user IDs. You can specify multiple user IDs with a positional qualifier.

    TMEM

    NA

    Qualifies a trace request by OTMA member name or that IMS Connect job or started task name

    If monitoring by IMS Connect name, the BMC AMI Energizer for IMS Connect product must be installed.

    TERM

    XTERM

    The names of LTERMs or Tpipes to be included (TERM) or excluded (XTERM) from monitoring

    Valid entries are 1- to 8-character alphanumeric names, which can include plus qualifies. Multiple names can be specified. For DBCTL transactions, this is the 4- character CICS terminal ID.

  5. Press Enter.
    The service monitor request is started.



 

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