HOWTO Acquire/Determine Dispatch space allocation and usage statistics
Article ID: 281063
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Issue/Introduction
We are considering converting our existing Dispatch 11.7 system over to View/Deliver 14.0.
What would be the best practices for acquiring usage information on our current Dispatch?
Environment
Dispatch, 11.6, 11.7 usage, statistics, determine, acquire, space, users, activity, online viewing, archive, print
Cause
Considering product conversion
Resolution
* There is no "easy" way to acquire the information you need to determine usage, but you can...
- Monitor Dispatch STC's JESMSGLG for user signon and signoff activity.
- Monitor the Dispatch STC's DSLOG to see what users are doing while they are logged on to Dispatch.
- Review STAT,X command output from CADZSPLx task startup logs to see how many LDS files you have, how big they are, and what your current utilization/SATURATION level is for those LDS files.
- Run the DSCULP19 Culprit report (job=DSEXCULP ; PROC=CADSCULP) to see what reports are being stored in Online Viewing and what their OLV retentions are.
- Run the DSCULP21 Culprit report to see what reports you have ARCHIVED, their archive retentions, and what tapes are in use by Dispatch.
- To identify what reports Dispatch is currently spooling out for PRINT, run the DSCULP06 Culprit report to obtain a listing of your STATUS records. These are the same records you see when you select option 4 from the main menu and represent the reports Dispatch has spooled out to JES for PRINT. (The reports that you see in this listing will indicate what report definitions have the highest priority in terms of getting them defined to Deliver 14.0).
- Run DSCULP01 to see what REPORT BASE DEFINITIONS you have in your Dispatch database.
- Other more detailed information may be available if you have Dispatch cutting SMF records. Note that while CA Dispatch has the ability to CUT the SMF records, it does not provide a utility or means of REPORTING on them, so you would need to feed the CA Dispatch cut SMF records into some type of 3rd party SMF record reporting or chargeback application. For more information see the following knowledge articles:
Article ID: 17480 - Reporting on user activity while they were logged on to CA Dispatch
Article ID: 29202 - SMF records as they relate to CA Dispatch
- You may also want to run the DATABASE UNLOAD utility (Job=DSEXLODL ; PROC=CADSLODL) against your Dispatch database and unload the TYPE 1 and ALL ASSOCIATED RECORDS into a flat file. This will be useful to have in terms of knowing how many report base definitions you actually have in Dispatch, and what specific records will need to be defined into Deliver 14.0. Refer to the LOAD RECORD FORMAT section in the CA Dispatch 11.7 documentation for a breakdown of all of the fields in the various different database unload record types.
- Other potentially useful information can be found in the following Knowledge articles:
Knowledge article ID: 232449 - Determine CA Dispatch Database file space utilization
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