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Activating short-term history data collection

In CMF MONITOR, you can use the short-term history data collection facility to set up a set of interval recorder files that contain history that is written more frequently than regular history data.

The short-term interval is 15, 30, or 60 seconds long.

The data that is written to the short-term history files consists of job, device, and system data records only. Even though the short-term history records are much smaller than the regular history records, they are written more frequently. In general, the short-term history files should be bigger than the regular history files.

The short-term history data can be displayed by using a special set of short-term history views. These views are accessible from the View ShortTerm Menu option on the EZMZOS menu in CMF MONITOR. In addition, if you want to see all available short-term views, display the SHORTERM view by entering SHORTERM on the COMMAND line.

To activate short-term history data collection

  1. Copy the BBDTST00 member to UBBPARM and customize it for your particular needs.As distributed with the product in the BBDTST00 member, the short-term data-collection interval is 60 seconds long. You can optionally define, for example, a BBDTST15 member for 15-second short-term interval.

    The control statements in member BBDTST00 are shown in the following figure.

    <short_term_data_collection>            <!-- Root tag                -->
      <interval_length>60</interval_length> <!-- Short-term interval length
                                                 is 15, 30, or 60 seconds-->

      <data_collectors>                     <!-- Collected data:         -->
        <class>ADDRESS SPACE</class>        <!--   Address space         -->
        <class>DEVICE</class>               <!--   Device                -->
        <class>SYSTEM</class>               <!--   System                -->
      </data_collectors>                                                    

    </short_term_data_collection>

  2. To activate short-term history data collection, enter one of the following system commands:

    • Fmvspas,STDC=START
      to start the data collection using the member BBDTST00
    • Fmvspas,STDC=xx
      to start the data collection using the member BBDTSTxx

    To stop short-term history data collection, enter the system command:

    Fmvspas,STDC=STOP

  3. In addition, you must define and initialize a set of short-term interval recorder files. Short-term history data sets are created and initialized like the regular history data sets, except that their DDnames begin with HST2 rather than HIST.For additional information about defining the new HST2 files, see Extracting historical data



 

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