For some reason, for example after an upgrade to a new Release of the Data Collector or after maintenance has been applied, a high increase of the CPU consumption is suddenly reported in the Data Collector started task.
You have to research the cause of the CPU consumption increase and try to find a circumvention to avoid the high CPU consumption until a permanent solution is published.
Release : 20.0
Component : CA SYSVIEW Performance Management Option for DB2 for z/OS
You can run the following steps for debugging and find any task that can be the cause of the high increase of CPU consumption.
- In CA SYSVIEW for DB2 main menu select the options.
1 System Statistics
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1 MVS Address Space Displays
Update JOB . . IDB2DC ASID . . xxxx <-- Check the current ASID
IDB2DC is the CA SYSVIEW for DB2 started task.
4 Tasks <-- This option will display how Tasks are utilizing the CPU.
Scroll down to all the panels and check column 'CPU Time', it should be a task with a high CPU consumption.
Sometimes the task can be disabled with any of the Data Collector parameters.
- Go to the CA SYSVIEW for DB2 main menu and in 'Tools' select 1 COMMANDS.
Select 3 CA SYSVIEW for DB2 Commands.
In 'CA SYSVIEW for DB2 Console Command ===>' issue the IFI command.
Review this screen shot to check if any of the IFCID's is called a lot of times.
Contact Broadcom Support with all these results to be analyzed and research the solution.