SYSVIEW: questions about EXPLORE Report

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• SYSVIEW Performance Management

Issue/Introduction

Q1. Running the report in EXPLORE with the field RESRC given 20 characters, how to code the control cards to display this field correctly? 

Q2. Is there an easy way to break the two fields into Workload  and SVCclass and Period and Importance? 

Q3.  Is there an option to format the date?  

                                                    

Environment

SYSVIEW 15.0 & 16.0 - z/OS supported releases - 

 

Resolution

A1. Run the report with the below input: 

SELECT OLDSTS(¬NONE)
SELECT VARNAME(WLMPI)
SELECT STATUS(¬NORMAL)
TAB DATE STARTTIME SORT ALPHA,
 COMMON THRESHOLD EXCEPTION VARNAME   AND,          
 COMMON THRESHOLD EXCEPTION RESRC AND,              
 COMMON THRESHOLD EXCEPTION RESRC2L FORMAT(20C) AND,
 COMMON THRESHOLD EXCEPTION VALUE     AND,          
 COMMON THRESHOLD EXCEPTION OLDVALUE  AND,          
 COMMON THRESHOLD EXCEPTION STATUS    AND,          
 COMMON THRESHOLD EXCEPTION OLDSTATUS AND,          
 COMMON THRESHOLD EXCEPTION COUNT     AND,          
 COMMON THRESHOLD EXCEPTION ELAPSED                 
END
RUN

A2. The field names are documented in SYSVIEW documentation, in the Report Writer section, there is a page for COMMON THRESHOLD EXCEPTIONS variables. 

What's happening is RESRC is defined as 8 bytes, so that's where it's cutting off. If the field is something like "ABCDE.FGHIJ",

it would get cut off like "ABCDE.FG HIJ".

Here is a better solution: 
Report Writer doesn't break up the string based on its contents, the below input should work perfectly: 
SELECT OLDSTS(¬NONE)                          
SELECT VARNAME(WLMPI)                         
SELECT STATUS(¬NORMAL)                        
DEFINE XVAR COMMON THRESHOLD EXCEPTION XRESRC,
  PRODUCT=EXPC,                               
  RECORD=03,                                  
  TRIPLET=128,                                
  OFFSET=8,                                   
  LENGTH=28,                                  
  TYPE=CHARACTER,                             
  HDR1=RESOURCE                               
TAB DATE STARTTIME SORT ALPHA,                
 COMMON THRESHOLD EXCEPTION VARNAME   AND,    
 COMMON THRESHOLD EXCEPTION XRESRC    AND,    
 COMMON THRESHOLD EXCEPTION VALUE     AND,    
 COMMON THRESHOLD EXCEPTION OLDVALUE  AND,    
 COMMON THRESHOLD EXCEPTION STATUS    AND,    
 COMMON THRESHOLD EXCEPTION OLDSTATUS AND,    
 COMMON THRESHOLD EXCEPTION COUNT     AND,    
 COMMON THRESHOLD EXCEPTION ELAPSED           
END                                           
RUN                                           

Here is defined a new variable called XRESRC and pointed it to the offset in the SMF record. This will fill in the resource in one column.

The line can be ajusted to "LENGTH=28," to set the column width. 

 

A3. There is not an explicit "CSV format" option, but there are a few options that are helpful. They are specified in the input record (example below).

There is an option to place the date on every row. This is coded as OPTION(PRINT=DATETIME). 
By default, Report Writer blanks out '0' values for easier viewing, but if these 0s need to be printed out for CSV. The option for this is OPTION(ZEROFLD=ZERO)

As an example of how this OPTION line fits in, see the below report:

//SYSIN     DD *                                
  OPTION(PRINT=DATETIME,ZEROFLD=ZERO)                        
  SELECT OLDSTS(¬NONE)                          
  SELECT VARNAME(WLMPI)                         
  SELECT STATUS(¬NORMAL)                        
  DEFINE XVAR COMMON THRESHOLD EXCEPTION XRESRC,
    PRODUCT=EXPC,                               
    RECORD=03,                                  
    TRIPLET=128,                                
    OFFSET=8,                                   
    LENGTH=28,                                  
    TYPE=CHARACTER,                             
    HDR1=RESOURCE                               
  TAB DATE STARTTIME SORT ALPHA,                
   COMMON THRESHOLD EXCEPTION VARNAME   AND,    
   COMMON THRESHOLD EXCEPTION XRESRC    AND,    
   COMMON THRESHOLD EXCEPTION VALUE     AND,    
   COMMON THRESHOLD EXCEPTION OLDVALUE  AND,    
   COMMON THRESHOLD EXCEPTION STATUS    AND,    
   COMMON THRESHOLD EXCEPTION OLDSTATUS AND,    
   COMMON THRESHOLD EXCEPTION COUNT     AND,    
   COMMON THRESHOLD EXCEPTION ELAPSED           
  END                                           
  RUN                                           
/*                                               
 

Additional Information

In the Report Writer section, there is a page for COMMON THRESHOLD EXCEPTIONS variables: 

Common Threshold Exception Variable Class