UIE commands


UIE provides intelligent defaults for parameter values and rules that enable you to create meaningful output with a minimum of user commands.

In most cases, you can use the defaults, however, when you need to override the defaults, UIE provides commands that you can use to change the defaults to meet your installation and data needs.

The following diagram provides an overview of the UIE commands. They are grouped by the following logical functions:

  • JCL Commands—JCL commands provide information about how system resources should be used for the batch job. Use these commands to allocate DASD space for temporary data sets.
  • Input Data Commands—Input data commands provide information about how the input data should be selected and processed. Use these commands to determine the time interval that should be selected from the input data and a number of filter/selection commands that you can use to limit the amount of data that is processed by UIE. You can also use these commands to provide information, which is not available in SMF records (for example, CPU types for some OEM processors).
  • Model Commands— Model commands provide information about how the selected system data should be organized and output to the XMLMODEL file. Use these commands to determine which data to include in workloads and SUITES and the level of detailed data that should be included in the XMLMODEL file.
  • Application Commands—Application commands provide information about how the selected subsystem (CICS, Db2, IMS, MQ, and WAS) data should be organized and written to the Visualizer file and to the resource consumption profiles in the XMLMODEL file. 
  • Workload/Suite Commands—Use these commands to determine which data to include in workloads and SUITES and the level of detailed data that you must include in the Visualizer and XMLMODEL files.
  • Visualizer Command—The Visualizer command determines whether UIE will generate a Visualizer file, and what information will be included in the file.

Important

  • Commands, parameters, and keywords for UIE need to be all uppercase letters. For example:

    SDATE TODAY-1
    SID=ALL

    However, the values of the parameters do not necessarily need to be uppercase. For example:

    JOB=*nix
    ACCNT=*Smith*
  • In a command file, a line is considered to be a comment if:

    • The line has an asterisk (*) in the first position
    • The line has any number of blanks followed by an asterisk (*) and at least one blank

    For example:

    ******* is a comment.
      *  is a comment.
    *is not a comment.

The following figure is an overview of the Universal Information Exchange command:

UIE_command_overview.png

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