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Using zOSMON ™ to analyze CICS Reponse Times

zOSMON as a feature of zVPS provides real time information, daily reporting, and long term trend capabilities. This page is to provide direction on how to use zOSMON to anlayze CICS transaction response times.

Response time reporting is done at several levels. One measure is total transactions for the CICS region. Another method is reporting by transaction names. For response time, we evaluate the terminated transactions. There is another class of transactions, the long term, or "inflight". Though these do not have a response time, their performance may be critical, and the resources consumed by inflight transactions may impact others or be impacted by others.

Because the overhead of the zVPS analysis is so extremely low, it is safe to monitor performance continously. The concept only monitoring when there is a problem implies diagnostics, where as if one always captures the data, any problem can be diagnosed from existing data rather than having to start a diagnostics tool and hope the problem re-occurs. zVPS focuses on management and ensuring all data is available for performance diagnostics, capacity planning and other parts of performance management such as operational alerts.

zVPS includes a Full Performance Database meaning that all data is captured for long term or post process analysis. The PDB is accessable real time through zVIEW and zMON, or as a batch process using zMAP.

Diagnosing performance degradation

zOSMON provides several CICS reports breaking down the different components of reponse time. Starting at a high level, the following is included on zoscix2/3/4. Response time has two major components:

Dispatch time includes CPU time and for each transaction type CPU time should be close to static for a transaction ID. Dispatch time also includes time to load the program, "PC Load" time. If programs are pre-loaded, this should be zero.

High level gross response time breakout is found on ESACIX2. Response time is broken up into dispatch time and suspend time. Dispatch time includes CPU time, and ZIP time. Suspend time has many components. In the following case, showing total terminated transactions for 3 different regions, V62C show much higher response time and that shows up in both suspend time and dispatch time. Plotting response time over long periods will be important to know what is normal and what is acceptable.

Report: ZOSCIX2      z/OS Region Transaction Analysis
Monitor initialized: 10/20/20 at 17:56:00 on Z15S serial 0E0F78
----------------------------------------------------------------
Time/           <-Response Time-> 
SYSID/ APPLID  Group    Count Total  Susp  Disp   CPU  DISP ZIP
Time                           Resp  Time  Time  Time  Wait CPU
----  -------  -------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ---
10/20/20
17:56:00 - 17:57:00
V24A  C24ASTND Totals     688 0.016 0.006 0.010 0.007 0.001   0
V24B  C24BSTND Totals     992 0.025 0.014 0.011 0.008 0.001   0
V62C  CICSJA69 Totals     440 0.618 0.510 0.108 0.021     0   0

Suspend time includes dispatch delay as well as other components. At a high level, dispatch delay includes time for first dispatch, I/O wait and a large "other" bucket. There are always unaccounted time as well.

Report: ZOSCIX2      z/OS Regi    Velocity Software Corporate   ZMAP 5.1.
Monitor initialized: 10/20/20
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Time/            <-Total-> <------Dispatch Delays-------->
SYSID/ APPLID  Group    Count  <--CPU--> <-------milliseconds---------->
Time                           Secs  Pct 1StDisp I/O Wait Other Unknown
----  -------  -------- -----  ---- ---- ------- -------- ----- -------
10/20/20
17:56:00 - 17:57:00
V24A  C24ASTND Totals     688  4.86 8.11    0.005   0.001 0.000       0
V24B  C24BSTND Totals     992  8.27    .    0.012   0.000 0.001       0
V62C  CICSJA69 Totals     440  9.26    .    0.510       0     0       0

Suspend time is the total time the transaction was suspended and includes

Operation alerts

Part of performance management is operational alerts. Using zALERT, you will want to implement alerts on items such as queue levels, active regions, active terminals, and the number and type of conversational transactions.

Performance Interval, benchmarking

With low overhead of processing the transaction and statistics records, zVPS normally collects and reports data on a one minute intervals that is aligned to the minute. During statistics gathering, there is overhead associated with that inside CICS. Traditionally, this is suspected to create a performance impact during this very short time frame of statistics gathering. If the statistics interval is 60 seconds, this will impact every 60 seconds, if the interval is 15 minutes, then this will impact every 900 seconds. One of the experiments we performed was to show response time second by second. To run your own benchmark on all CICS in an LPAR, issue the command
"SMSG ZSERVE SET BENCHMARK sysid jobname"
That will produce one record every second for 5 minutes showing response time of all transactions completing in that second. This allows analysis of the impact of the statistics gathering at the top of the minute. It also allows quick determination of dyanmic tuning options or if other workload changes are effective or detrimental

In benchmark mode, zwrite will create a "BENCHMARK FILE" on the ZWRITE 191 disk. The columns are transaction count, Response time, (usrdisp+susptime), usrdispt, susptime, usrcput.

Bench: 17:27:17 VSI1       16  0.008  0.008  0.005  0.003  0.004
Bench: 17:27:18 VSI1       40  0.006  0.006  0.006  0.001  0.005
Bench: 17:27:19 VSI1       87  0.017  0.017  0.006  0.011  0.006
Bench: 17:27:20 VSI1      120  0.036  0.036  0.004  0.032  0.004
Bench: 17:27:21 VSI1       95  0.002  0.002  0.002  0.000  0.002
Bench: 17:27:22 VSI1       87  0.004  0.004  0.003  0.000  0.003
Bench: 17:27:23 VSI1       96  0.004  0.004  0.004  0.001  0.003
Bench: 17:27:24 VSI1      112  0.006  0.006  0.004  0.002  0.004
Bench: 17:27:25 VSI1       64  0.005  0.005  0.004  0.001  0.004

This capability allows immediate analysis of any dynamic tuning performed or to understand impact of other actions.

Transaction Loads

When there is performance issues, one common question is "what changed". One of the possible changes is transaction loads. If one transaction suddenly ramps up unexpectatdly or in error, this will change performance characteristics. To understand the quantity of transactions by transaction, look at the ZOSCIX3 to see the load by transaction name.

Report: ZOSCIX3      z/OS CICS User Transacti
Monitor initialized: 10/20/20 at 17:56:00 on
---------------------------------------------
Time/     <--Transaction-> 
SYSID                 Rate Total  Susp  Disp
 APPLID     ID  Count /Sec  Resp  Time  Time
--------  ----  ----- ---- ----- ----- -----
10/20/20
17:56:00 - 17:57:00
V24A
 C24ASTND Total   688 11.5 0.016 0.006 0.010
          CSAC     55 0.92 0.003 0.001 0.002
          STRH     31 0.52 0.059 0.018 0.041
          STR1     29 0.48 0.007 0.003 0.004
          STR2     28 0.47 0.007 0.000 0.007
          STR3     22 0.37 0.013 0.001 0.012
          STR4     23 0.38 0.014 0.001 0.014
          STR5     21 0.35 0.028 0.005 0.023
          STR6     24 0.40 0.021 0.002 0.019
          STR7     22 0.37 0.025 0.005 0.020
          STR8     25 0.42 0.031 0.007 0.023
          STR9     35 0.58 0.047 0.017 0.030
          ZIPC    113 1.88 0.006 0.004 0.001
          ZIPU    118 1.97 0.004 0.002 0.002
          ZPHG     71 1.18 0.014 0.007 0.007
          ZPHP     71 1.18 0.022 0.016 0.006

CICS CPU Analysis

CPU analysis has several different aspects. One can start by understanding the LPAR requirements by looking at the ZOSCPU report. In this case there are two general purpose engines and one zIIP that is not being used.

Report: ZOSCPU       Z/OS CPU Report
Monitor initialized: 10/20/20 at 17:56:00 on
--------------------------------------------
TIME/   <--CPU--> Sample <-CPU Utilization>
 
SYSID   ID   Type Count  Total  Wait Parked
------  ---- ---- -----  ----- ----- ------
17:57:00 - 17:58:00
 
V24A     Tot   GP     2   22.6 142.2      0
           0   GP     1   12.9  68.0      0
           1   GP     1    9.7  74.3      0
           2 zIIP     1    0.1 100.0      0

After looking at the high level CPU, one can look at the specific CICS region on the ZOSJCPU report.

Report: ZOSJCPU      z/OS Job/Step CPU/Resource Report
Monitor initialized: 10/20/20 at 17:56:00 on Z15S serial 0E0F78
------------------------------------------------------------------
SYSID <------JOB----------> <-------CPU Percents---------------->
      Name     JobID   Step                 Initiat     Regn
                        Nbr Total  STD  SRB TCB SRB I/O Cntrl USS
----  -------- -------- --- ----- ---- ---- --- --- --- ----- ---
10/20/20
17:56:00 - 17:57:00
V24A
      Totals              .  19.5 16.0  3.2   0   0 0.3     0   0
      CATALOG  CATALOG    1     0    0    0   0   0   0     0   0
      C24ASTND STC04414   1  13.0 12.4  0.6   0   0   0     0   0
      GPMSERVE STC03424   1   0.1  0.1    0   0   0   0     0   0
      IXGLOGR  IXGLOGR    1   0.0    0  0.0   0   0   0     0   0
      IZUSVR1  STC03413   3   0.8  0.8  0.0   0   0   0     0   0
      JESXCF   JESXCF     1   0.0  0.0    0   0   0   0     0   0
      JES2     JES2       1   0.3  0.3  0.0   0   0   0     0   0
      JES2MON  JES2MON    1   0.3  0.1  0.1   0   0   0     0   0
      MQA1CHIN STC03890   1   0.0  0.0  0.0   0   0   0     0   0
      MQA1MSTR STC03453   1   0.3  0.1  0.1   0   0 0.0     0   0
      MQA2CHIN STC03937   1   0.0  0.0  0.0   0   0   0     0   0
      MQA2MSTR STC03456   1   0.0  0.0  0.0   0   0   0     0   0
      MSTJCL00 MSTR       1   0.1  0.1  0.0   0   0   0     0   0
      OMVS     OMVS       1   0.0  0.0    0   0   0   0     0   0
      RMF      STC03391   1   0.1  0.1  0.0   0   0   0     0   0
      SDSF     STC03387   1   0.0  0.0  0.0   0   0   0     0   0
      SDSFAUX  STC03407   1   0.4  0.4  0.1   0   0   0     0   0
      SMF      SMF        1   0.0  0.0    0   0   0   0     0   0
      SMS      SMS        1   0.0  0.0  0.0   0   0   0     0   0
      TCPIP    STC03385   1   0.9  0.2  0.7   0   0   0     0   0
      TN3270   STC03421   1   1.4  0.1  1.3   0   0   0     0   0
      WLM      WLM        1   0.3  0.2  0.0   0   0   0     0   0
      XCFAS    XCFAS      1   0.1  0.1  0.0   0   0   0     0   0
      ZFS      STC03381   1   0.2  0.2  0.0   0   0   0     0   0
      ZOSMNVM2 STC03419   1   0.3  0.3    0   0   0   0     0   0
      ZOSMNVM4 STC03420   1   0.3  0.3  0.0   0   0   0     0   0

And we can see at this point, the CICS region is using 13% of one GP processor.

To take that analsys inside CICS, the totals for all the transactions that do not include CICS overhead shows as 4.9 CPU seconds during the interval, or 8.1% of one GP CPU.

Report: ZOSCIX2      z/OS Region Transaction Analysis              Veloc
Monitor initialized: 10/20/20 at 17:56:00 on Z15S serial 0E0F78
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Time/           <-Response Time->  <-Total-
SYSID/ APPLID  Group    Count Total  Susp  Disp   CPU  DISP ZIP <--CPU--
Time                           Resp  Time  Time  Time  Wait CPU Secs Pct
----  -------  -------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- --- ---- ---
10/20/20
17:56:00 - 17:57:00
V24A  C24ASTND Totals     688 0.016 0.006 0.010 0.007 0.001   0  4.9 8.1
------------------------------------------------------------------------
17:57:00 - 17:58:00
V24A  C24ASTND Totals    1192 0.013 0.005 0.008 0.006 0.001   0  6.6 11.
               InFlight
------------------------------------------------------------------------
17:58:00 - 17:59:00
V24A  C24ASTND Totals    1189 0.013 0.005 0.008 0.006 0.001   0  6.8 11.
               InFlight    11 119.9 119.7 0.221 0.064 0.024   0  0.7 1.1
 

CPU by transaction is found on ZOSCIX4, and in this case it is obvious that this workload does not utilize the zIIP processor. The CPU time is per transaction in CPU seconds. In this case the average for ALL the transactions that completed was .007 CPU seconds or 7 milliseconds per transaction.

Report: ZOSCIX4      z/OS CICS Tranaction IO Wait Analy
Monitor initialized: 10/20/20 at 17:56:00 on Z15S seria
-------------------------------------------------------
Time/     Transaction <-Response Time-> 
SYSID                 Total  Susp  Disp   CPU   PC  ZIP
 APPLID     ID  Count  Resp  Time  Time  Time  Load CPU
--------  ----  ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ---
10/20/20
17:56:00 - 17:57:00
V24A
 C24ASTND Total   688 0.016 0.006 0.010 0.007     0   0
          CSAC     55 0.003 0.001 0.002 0.001     0   0
          STRH     31 0.059 0.018 0.041 0.037     0   0
          STR1     29 0.007 0.003 0.004 0.003     0   0
          STR2     28 0.007 0.000 0.007 0.005     0   0
          STR3     22 0.013 0.001 0.012 0.010     0   0
          STR4     23 0.014 0.001 0.014 0.011     0   0
          STR5     21 0.028 0.005 0.023 0.017     0   0
          STR6     24 0.021 0.002 0.019 0.017     0   0
          STR7     22 0.025 0.005 0.020 0.017     0   0
          STR8     25 0.031 0.007 0.023 0.021     0   0
          STR9     35 0.047 0.017 0.030 0.026     0   0
          ZIPC    113 0.006 0.004 0.001 0.001     0   0
          ZIPU    118 0.004 0.002 0.002 0.001     0   0
          ZPHG     71 0.014 0.007 0.007 0.002     0   0
          ZPHP     71 0.022 0.016 0.006 0.002     0   0

CICS Storage Analysis

Storage information is provided by the statistics type 29 record at the interval chosen. (type 2 for VSE). This data is exposed in great detail on the ZOSCIXS1 Dynamic Storage Area Report as shown in the following partial report:

Report: ZOSCIXS1     z/OS CICS Dynamic Storage Area Report         Velocity
Monitor initialized: 10/20/20 at 17:56:00 on Z15S serial 0E0F78
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
SYSID JobName  Pool <-----DSA (mb)----> Pool   <-Storage in Mbytes--> Lrgst
               Locn  Limit  Total  HWM  Name   Size   HWM  Cush  Free Free
---- --------- ----  ----- ------ ----- ----  ----- ----- -----  ---- ---- -
10/20/20
17:56:00 - 17:57:00
V24A C24ASTND  <16M  5.000  1.000 1.000 CDSA    0.3   0.3   0.1   0.1  70K
                                        UDSA    0.3   0.3   0.1   0.3 262K
                                        SDSA    0.3   0.3   0.1   0.2 258K
                                        RDSA    0.3   0.3   0.1   0.1  78K
               <2GB  400.0  63.00  63.0 ECDSA  10.0  10.0   0.1   2.5 975K 1
                                        EUDSA   2.0   2.0     0   2.0 1.0M
                                        ESDSA  17.0  17.0   0.1   1.0 1.0M
                                        ERDSA  33.0  33.0   0.3   0.3 217K
                                        ETDSA   1.0   1.0   0.1   1.0 1.0M
               >2GB  10240   1024  1024 GCDSA   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0 1003

Items that you may wish to set alerts on is the "short on storage", "sos", and possbly the high water mark (HWM) as well.

You may wish to compare the CICS view of storage with the z/OS "job view" on the ZOSJSTR report.

Report: ZOSJSTR      z/OS Job Storage Report
Monitor initialized: 10/20/20 at 17:56:00 on Z15S serial 0E0F78
-------------------------------------------------------------------
SYSID <------JOB---------->  CPU <-LSQA-->  16M <16M >16M  Regn
                        Nbr  Pct                     <16M >16M
----  -------- -------- ---  --- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----- --- ----
10/20/20
17:56:00 - 17:57:00
V24A
      Totals              . 19.5  10M 2.2G  16M 1.8G 309M  74G 4.3M
      CATALOG  CATALOG    1    0 561K  16M  16K 1.1M 8.4M 2.0G 8168
      C24ASTND STC04414   1 13.0 393K  17M 5.6M 439M 8.4M 2.0G 1.2M
      GPMSERVE STC03424   1  0.1 197K  15M 127K  21M 8.4M 2.0G 262K
      IXGLOGR  IXGLOGR    1  0.0 213K  16M  57K 9.0M 8.4M 2.0G 8168
      IZUSVR1  STC03413   3  0.8 332K 132M 197K 233M 8.4M 2.0G 8168
      JESXCF   JESXCF     1  0.0 164K  13M  53K 1.1M 8.4M 2.0G 8168
      JES2     JES2       1  0.3 311K  14M 631K 867M 8.4M 2.0G 8168
      JES2MON  JES2MON    1  0.3 143K  12M 4096 2.5M    0    0    0
      ...

CICS Transaction Storage Analysis

Storage at a system level can be evaluated on a finer granularity by looking at transaction type requirements. There are different transaction uses of storage, below the line, above the line, UDSA, CDSA, and combination. It is important to understand that a transaction only uses storage for a short time. There are two parts of that; there is the storage requirements of the transaction, but then the transaction holds that storage for approcimately the length of the transaction. Thus whe response time gets worse, the "storage impact" can increase greatly.

This is the concept of storage residency or storage impact based on transactions with finer granularity. The following ZOSCIX5 report shows the average storage per transaction, and then shows the storage impact. Using "Storage impact" by transaction ID, it becomes easy to determine where to spend time reducing storage.

Report: ZOSCIX5      z/OS CICS Tranaction Storage Analysis               ZMAP 5.1.1
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Time/     Transaction   <-Shared-> 
SYSID                  <-GT 16MB->  <-GT 16MB-->  <---per---->
 APPLID     ID  Count USDA CDSA EUDSA  ECDS UDSA CDSA EUDSA ECDSA  Gets Frees  Xact TranID
--------  ----  ----- ---- ---- ----- ----- ---- ---- ----- -----  ---- ----- ----- ------
17:56:00 - 17:57:00
V24A
 C24ASTND Totals  688    0 630K     0 62618    0    0   2.8   0.8     0     0   180 123928
          CSAC     55    0    0     0  4015    0    0     0   1.0     0     0     0     11
          STRH     31    0 2.5M     0     0    0    0   4.0     0     0     0  2469  76549
          STR1     29    0 227K     0     0    0    0   4.0     0     0     0    27    771
          STR2     28    0 412K     0     0    0    0   4.0     0     0     0    50   1413
          STR3     22    0 676K     0     0    0    0   4.0     0     0     0   142   3121
          STR4     23    0 805K     0     0    0    0   4.0     0     0     0   192   4421
          STR5     21    0 1.4M     0     0    0    0   4.0     0     0     0   654  13742
          STR6     24    0 1.1M     0     0    0    0   4.0     0     0     0   405   9712
          STR7     22    0 1.2M     0     0    0    0   4.0     0     0     0   487  10724
          STR8     25    0 1.4M     0     0    0    0   4.0     0     0     0   723  18070
          STR9     35    0 1.8M     0     0    0    0   4.0     0     0     0  1416  49558

By picking the major storage users based on the last column, improving response time and/or reducing storage of the transaction IDs would be where to start.

CICS Paging Analysis

If the CICS region is paged out, performance will degrade. System paging can be found on the ZOSPAGE report. In this case there is zero paging I/O at the system level.

Report: ZOSPAGE      Z/OS PAGE Detail Report                       Velocity Sof
Monitor initialized: 10/20/20 at 17:56:00 on Z15S serial 0E0F78
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Time/    Page  Volume Devc <-----Page Slots------------> Pct  ASM  
  SYSID  Type  Serial Nmbr Total  MaxU  MinU   Avg   Bad Used Used  page  I/O
------   ----- ------ ---- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ---- ---- ----- -----
10/20/20
17:56:00 - 17:57:00
    V24A Totals:           1025K  152K  152K  152K     0 14.9    0     0     0
         PLPA  24ASPG 0246  234K 16366 16366 16366     0 6.99    0     0     0
         Commn 24ACAT 0241  9719  2489  2489  2489     0 25.6    0     0     0
         Local 24ASPG 0246  781K  134K  134K  134K     0 17.1    0     0     0

Paging at the specific region level can be determined on the ZOSJSTR report showing storage of each job as well as swap and paging. The following shows all page/swap rates associated region by retion:

Report: ZOSJSTR      z/OS Job Storage Report       ZMAP 5.1.1 11/01/20   Page
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SYSID <------JOB---------->  CPU> . Page <--Page In-> Hper Swap 
      Name     JobID   Step     - . Stls CSA Hper LPA Page Rate 
                        Nbr  Pctm .          Spce      Out       In OUT  In Out
----  -------- -------- ---  ---- . ---- --- ---- --- ---- ---- --- --- --- ---
10/20/20                          .
17:56:00 - 17:57:00               .
V24A                              .
      Totals              . 19.50 .    0   0    0   0    0    0   0   0   0   0
      CATALOG  CATALOG    1    00 .    0   0    0   0    0    0   0   0   0   0
      C24ASTND STC04414   1 13.00 .    0   0    0   0    0    0   0   0   0   0
      GPMSERVE STC03424   1  0.10 .    0   0    0   0    0    0   0   0   0   0
      IXGLOGR  IXGLOGR    1  0.00 .    0   0    0   0    0    0   0   0   0   0
      IZUSVR1  STC03413   3  0.80 .    0   0    0   0    0    0   0   0   0   0
      JESXCF   JESXCF     1  0.00 .    0   0    0   0    0    0   0   0   0   0
      JES2     JES2       1  0.30 .    0   0    0   0    0    0   0   0   0   0

At this point, if there were paging, then evaluation of storage requirements and how the storage is used would be the next step.

CICS Transaction I/O Wait Analysis

There are transaction wait statistics for each kind of I/O. These are shown by transaction ID on the ZOSCIX4 report.
Report: ZOSCIX4 z/OS CICS Tranaction IO Wait Analysis
Monitor initial10/20/20 at 17:56:0
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Time/     Trans <-Response Time-> .Suspend - I/O Wait (milliseconds)
SYSID           Total  Susp  Disp .                          Shr
 APPLID     ID   Resp  Time  Time . Trm Jrn  TS File MRO  TD  TS RLS
--------  ----  ----- ----- ----- . --- --- --- ---- --- --- --- ---
10/20/20                          .
17:56:00 - 17:57:00               .
V24A                              .
 C24ASTND Total 0.016 0.006 0.010 . 0.0   0   0  0.0   0   0   0   0
          CSAC  0.003 0.001 0.002 . 0.0   0   0    0   0   0   0   0
          STRH  0.059 0.018 0.041 .   0   0   0    0   0   0   0   0
          STR1  0.007 0.003 0.004 .   0   0   0    0   0   0   0   0
          STR2  0.007 0.000 0.007 .   0   0   0    0   0   0   0   0
          STR3  0.013 0.001 0.012 .   0   0   0    0   0   0   0   0
          STR4  0.014 0.001 0.014 .   0   0   0    0   0   0   0   0
          STR5  0.028 0.005 0.023 .   0   0   0    0   0   0   0   0
          STR6  0.021 0.002 0.019 .   0   0   0    0   0   0   0   0
          STR7  0.025 0.005 0.020 .   0   0   0    0   0   0   0   0
          STR8  0.031 0.007 0.023 .   0   0   0    0   0   0   0   0
          STR9  0.047 0.017 0.030 .   0   0   0    0   0   0   0   0
          ZIPC  0.006 0.004 0.001 .   0   0   0  0.1   0   0   0   0
          ZIPU  0.004 0.002 0.002 . 0.1   0   0    0   0   0   0   0
          ZPHG  0.014 0.007 0.007 .   0   0   0  0.2   0   0   0   0
          ZPHP  0.022 0.016 0.006 .   0   0   0    0   0   0   0   0
 
 
 
 
 
 

Max Task

Maximum task limit (MXT) and associated information such as current active tasks is reported on ZOSCIX1 with the CICS configuration items.

Report: ZOSCICS1     z/O                Veloporate   ZMAP 5.1.1 10/24/
Monitor initialized: 10/erial 0E0F78
----------------------------------------------------------------------
SYSID <--CICS Program->   <----Location--->  <----Task Statistics--->
      APPLID   JobName    LPARName VMID      Total MXT Actv Qued PctM
----  -------- -------- - -------- --------  ----- --- ---- ---- ----
17:59:00 - 18:00:00
V24A  C24ASTND C24ASTND 0 VSIVM5              1197  75   19    0 25.3
V24B  C24BSTND C24BSTND 0 VSIVM5             25449 150   10    0  6.7
V61B  CICSJA60 CICSJA60 0 VSIVM5   ZVSE61B     364  40    2    0  5.0
      CICSJB60 CICSJB60 0 VSIVM5   ZVSE61B     341  50    2    0  4.0
 

It is likely an alert should be set on the percent of max task, so that if max task is approached, there will be an operation alert.

Future topics

Terminal data, errors

DASD Usage

Temporary Storage STID 48

TCPIP Statistics STID 48


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