MainView Transaction Analyzer utilities

These online utilities can be useful to BMC Customer Support in diagnosing problems that occur with MainView Transaction Analyzer.

To access the MainView Transaction Analyzer utilities

1. On the EZTA easy menu under Options & Settings, position your cursor on MVTAUtilities and press Enter.
   The EZTAU easy menu is displayed below:

   ddmmmyyyy hh:mm:ss ------ MAINVIEW WINDOW INTERFACE (Vv.r.mm) ----------------
   COMMAND ===>                                                  SCROLL ===> PAGE
   CURR WIN ===> 1 ALT WIN ===>
    W1 =EZTAU=============MTH1=====*========ddmmmyyyy==hh:mm:ss====MVTA=====D====1
                              EZTA Utilities Menu
   
    Session Information    +----------------------+ Diagnostic Help
                           |   Place cursor on    |
   . Active MVTA Loggers   |    menu item and     | . Control Blocks
   . Active MVTA Servers   |     press ENTER      | . Correlation Fields
   . Connected Products    +----------------------+ . MVTA Module Listing
   . Operating Parameters                           . MVTA Trace
   . Search Dialog Defaults                         . Operating Statistics
   
    Filter Information
   
   . Filter/Policy Management
   . Group Policy Defn Mgmt 

     

2. On the EZTAU easy menu, position your cursor on the option that you want and press Enter.

   The following tables describe the EZTAU options:

   Option	What it displays	Description
   Active MVTA Loggers	MTALOGR view	Displays detailed information about MainView Transaction Analyzer log file usage From this view, you can hyperlink from: The Sys field to see a list of log files for the associated NGL LOGSET or Logger logspace (MTALOGL view) You can also use the L line command to display the MTALOGL view. The LSNAME field to see access statistics for the targeted LOGSET or logspace (MTALOGS view) You can also use the ST line command to display the MTALOGS view. For examples of these views, see Log file utility views.
   Active MVTA Servers	MTAACTIV view	Displays the active MainView Transaction Analyzer instances that are available on the CASplex
   Connected Products	MTACONN view	Displays the address spaces that are connected to this MainView Transaction Analyzer instance The connected address spaces could be other BMC AMI Ops product PASs or MQ manager address spaces that are being used by BMC AMI Ops Monitor for MQ.
   Operating Parameters	STORLIST view	Displays the MainView Transaction Analyzer startup parameters The content of the STORLIST view depends on how it is invoked. If the STARTUP parameter is used (as it is when this hyperlink is followed), the view displays startup parameters. If STORLIST is invoked from the command line without a parameter, it displays both the startup parameters and the current modules in use.
   Search Dialog Defaults	DFLT view	Displays the default values used in the search dialog The values are derived from the MTAPRMxx member in the BBPARM library.

   
   

   Option	What it displays	Description
   Filter/Policy Management	MTAFILT view	Displays a list of the MainView Transaction Analyzer filter and policy definition members
   Group Policy Defn Mgmt	GROUPADD view	Displays a list of available policy definition members and allows you to combine policy members into a group policy definition

   
   

   Option	What it displays	Description
   Control Blocks	DIAGCBS view	Displays the contents of the MainView Transaction Analyzer control blocks From this view, you can hyperlink on the Blk ID field to see a formatted control block display (CBDSPLY view) the Address field to display storage from the specified address (DIAGSTOR view)
   Correlation Fields	Correlation Fields search dialog (followed by UCOMP view)	Displays all fields related to a given correlation in a tabular view
   MVTA Module Listing	STORLIST view	Displays information about the modules that are being used by MainView Transaction Analyzer The content of the STORLIST view depends on how it is invoked. If the JOBPACK parameter is used (as it is when this hyperlink is followed), the view displays information about the current modules in use. If STORLIST is invoked from the command line without a parameter, it displays both the current modules in use and the MainView Transaction Analyzer startup parameters
   MVTA Trace	DIAGTRAC view	Displays the contents of the MainView Transaction Analyzer trace To enable tracing, use the TRACE MODIFY command, as described in TRACE—Enable diagnostic tracing .
   Operating Statistics	OPSTATS view	Displays various operating statistics about a MainView Transaction Analyzer session The statistics that are displayed in the OPSTATS view are controlled by the STATS parameter of member MTAPRMxx. The default is STATS=YES, so as distributed, operating statistics are collected. For information about MTAPRMxx and the STATS parameter, see Configuration parameters