Handling the LOCAL average value in SYSVAPPS

Products

• SYSVIEW Performance Management

Issue/Introduction

In SYSVAPPS, numeric data received from SYSVIEW, including percentages,
cannot be used in conditional expressions. (Because it is not numeric data)

At the bottom of the SYSVIEW PAGEDS screen, there are 5 LOCAL rows. Dividing the sum of the Size field across these 5 rows by the sum of the Used field across the same 5 rows yields the average LOCAL value.

This average value is displayed in the LOCAL field on the 7th row at the top of the table below.

Is there any way to retrieve this value or incorporate it into a condition in SYSVAPPS?

 

Environment

OS : z/OS

Release : All

Resolution

Currently, SYSVIEW/SYSVAPPS does not implement functions to convert acquired information into numerical values, so values with a percentage cannot be changed to numerical values.

The MVS_PAGE_DataSetSlotsPct metric stores utilization data for currently used LOCAL PAGE DATASET SLOTS.

Instead of using a condition in SYSVAPPS, create a SYSVIEW RULE for the MVS_PAGE_DataSetSlotsPct metric in SYSVIEW.