Convert CPU Time into seconds

Products

• SYSVIEW Performance Management

Issue/Introduction

The representation of CPU Time for some started tasks in SYSVIEW panel shows a presentation in hh:mm:ss but the Help (F1) on CPU time says value is in seconds. 

 

Environment

SYSVIEW 17.0 - z/OS supported releases - 

Resolution

SYSVIEW is converting times to hh:mm:ss because the field is 8 characters wide, therefore displaying the time in a more human readable format also allows for much greater lengths of time to be displayed. 

There is a way to convert this quickly in seconds, you can set the profile option: 

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 | FMTSECSLIMit     | Specifies when elapsed time data displayed as seconds   |    
 |                  | and milliseconds (ssss.mmm) switches to being displayed |    
 |                  | as hours, minutes, and seconds (hhxmmxss, x is the time |    
 |                  | separator character). Valid values are:                 |    
 |                  |                                                         |    
 |                  |     MINUTE     switches at   59.999                     |    
 |                  |     HOUR       switches at 3599.999                     |    
 |                  |     NONE       switches at 9999.999                     |    
 |                  |                                                         |    
 |                  | The initial default value is MINUTE.                    |    
 |                  |                                                         |    
 |                  | Use the value DEFAULT to delete the value in your       |    
 |                  | profile and revert back to the default value for        |    
 |                  | the keyword.                                            |  
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