Creating Custom Screens
This step shows how to create customized screens. Customizing a screen consists of arranging a set of windows within the boundaries of the screen and then placing a view in each window. Customizing screens becomes particularly valuable when you need information from several views or products displayed simultaneously to monitor your site's work.
It shows an example of a customized screen. The top left window shows the VistaPoint APGRPR view displaying a real-time performance summary of the product workloads belonging to VistaPoint applications. The remaining three windows show the individual xOBJR views of BMC AMI Ops Monitor for CICS, BMC AMI Ops Monitor for Db2, and BMC AMI Ops Monitor for IMS. The xOBJR views summarize real-time performance of the individual product workloads belonging to an application.
Together, the VistaPoint APGRPR view and the individual xOBJR views give a different perspective of each product's workload performance from a single screen. At a glance, you can see a performance summary of all product workloads in an application or the performance of individual workloads.
COMMAND ===> SCROLL ===> PAGE
CURR WIN ===> 1 ALT WIN ===>
>W1 =APGRPR===========(ALL======*==== >W2 -COBJR------------(ALL------*-------)
CMD Appl Type Avg % Obj | CMD Workload % <= Resp Goal Resp
--- -------- ---- 0.....50...10 | --- Name---- 0.....50...100 Goal-
FINANCE CICS 69.56 ********** | POJAPAN 85.78 ************ 0.80
PAYROLL CICS 75.69 ********** | POMEXICO 89.84 ************ 0.50
FINANCE DB2 76.40 ********** | POFRANCE 92.60 ************ 1.00
PARTDIST IMS 83.59 *********** | POBRAZIL 97.49 ************* 0.50
FINANCE MVS 86.46 *********** | POSWEDEN 98.34 ************* 1.00
PARTDIST CICS 93.45 ************ |
PARTDIST DB2 94.78 ************ |
>W3 -DOBJR------------(ALL------*---- >W4 -IOBJR------------(ALL------*-------)
CMD Workload % <= Resp Goal Res | CMD Workload % <= Resp Goal Resp
--- Name---- 0.....50...100 Goa | --- Name---- 0.....50...100 Goal-
POMEXICO 92.08 ********** 0. | POMEXICO 75.78 *********** 0.50
POSWEDEN 93.84 ************ 1. | POFRANCE 79.44 *********** 1.00
POFRANCE 93.65 ************ 0. | POBRAZIL 82.48 *********** 0.50
POBRAZIL 95.46 ************* 1. | POSWEDEN 86.99 ************ 1.00
POJAPAN 96.24 ************* 0. | POJAPAN 88.24 ************ 0.80
As you become more familiar with the unique information displayed from different views, creating custom screen definitions is an efficient way to work with VistaPoint. Custom screens allow you to present a specialized assortment of views you typically need to analyze ongoing performance issues.
The first two sections in this step demonstrate how to create the screen and save it for future use. The third section explains several commands that manage windows.