MVSVARS command shows duplicate metrics in SysView after upgrade.

Products

• SYSVIEW Performance Management

Issue/Introduction

After applying LU15848 to SysView R17.0 and noticed that when MVSVARS command entered Duplicate Metrics are displayed. We see "%" and Pct metrics. The parmlib member MVSVARS has been updated to Pct.

one example:

MVS_CHAN_Busy%   
MVS_CHAN_BusyPct 

Refer screen shot:

Environment

SysView R17.0 + LU15848

Cause

The metric MVS_CHAN_Busy% was changed to MVS_CHAN_BusyPct.
The name MVS_CHAN_Busy% was maintained as an alias of the new metric name.

This was done for ALL metrics that use % sign. 

Resolution

If you scroll to the right on the METRICS MVS command, you will see a new data column "AliasOf".  This will show that MVS_CHAN_Busy% is an alias of MVS_CHAN_BusyPct.

Both metric names will continue to work.  

You can remove the duplicate metrics within the display by issuing the command - METRICS NOALIAS. 

Additional Information

With the installation of LU15848 we recommend you also update the following members to use the new metric names.

CTHRESH              SVWYVARS
IMSTHRSH             IMSVARS
MQSTHRSH           MQSVARS
MVSTHRSH           MVSVARS
TCPTHRSH 

For a full list of new metric names with SysView R17.0 please refer article:
After the upgrade to Sysview rel 17.0 the Threshold names have changed