Collecting and archiving report data
PERFORMANCE REPORTER batch reports are created from data gathered by the MainView for CICS data collectors.
Depending upon the sampling parameters specified when MainView for CICS was customized, CICS data is collected over periodic intervals from monitored targets and then written as records to VSAM databases.
This chapter gives a description of the various data records that are used to create batch reports. An outline of the various steps you must complete to prepare this data is also part of the discussion. Managing-report-data gives a more complete description of some of the procedures introduced in this chapter.
This chapter concludes with a section that describes the procedure to archive and purge records from data sets.
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