"PLAN0001" text in OLP messages, and unprintable characters

Products

• IDMS
• IDMS - Database

Issue/Introduction

The OLP task code shows many messages with the text "PLAN0001" and other unprintable characters similar to this:

13:15 2$ ;C 2F V1.1PLAN0001 % RHDCSNON
13:15 & 4$ ;C 2F V1.1PLAN0001 % ADSORUN1

Environment

Release: All supported releases.
Component: Task Analyzer.

Cause

This can happen after an upgrade from a previous release of IDMS or after re-formatting the DDLDCRUN queue area. The PLAN0001 messages are task statistics collected by IDMS Task Analyzer and written to the IDMS log for batch reporting. The default option when IDMS Task Analyzer is first installed is to write these statistics to the IDMS log.

Resolution

Turn off the writing of these statistics to the IDMS log using the USFAOPT task code and modifying the WRITE CONTROL option LOG FILE to N.

This is the screen displayed by the USFAOPT task code, the LOG FILE option is in the WRITE CONTROL section:

 R19.0   TASK ANALYZER COPYRIGHT(C) 2014 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 01:24 05/09/16
USFMOPT        STATISTICS COLLECTION PLANNING SCREEN        PLAN ID: PLAN0001
COLLECTION CONTROL:
     DATABASE:  Y    ADS:   Y    PROGRAM: Y   DC/INTERNAL: Y
     LOAD/LINK: Y    ERUS:  Y    MAXIMUM LOAD/LINK LEVELS: 016
EXCLUDE:
     OPTION  NAME    OPTION  NAME    OPTION  NAME    OPTION  NAME
       _    ________   _    ________   _    ________   _    ________
       _    ________   _    ________   _    ________   _    ________
 
EXIT CONTROL:
     GLOBAL     STATUS:  _     => DISABLED
     COLLECTION STATUS:  _   FROM: 00 : 00  TO: 24 : 00  => DISABLED
     (SUN/MON/TUE/WED/THU/FRI/SAT) DAY OF WEEK: SUN   TO:   SAT

WRITE CONTROL:
     LOG FILE: N    LOG TYPE: 2   DC STATISTICS: Y  OS/SMF: N
SMF OPTIONS:
     NUMBER: 129    BLOCK MODE: 1    BLOCK SIZE: 04096   JES ID: nnnn

The IDMS Task Analyzer options are stored in a queue record named "TASK_ANALYZER_12". If this queue is deleted or the DDLDCRUN are is formatted the options will be lost and will need to be set again.

To continue writing these statistics to the log, they can be suppressed in OLP by using the command NOTR in OLP or invoking OLP with "OLP NOTR".