English FUJITSU Software BS2000 openSM2 Software Monitor User Guide Valid for: openSM2 V21.0A Edition June 2021 Comments… Suggestions… Corrections… The User Documentation Department would like to know your opinion on this manual. Your feedback helps us to optimize our documentation to suit your individual needs. Feel free to send us your comments by e-mail to: [email protected]. Certified documentation according to DIN EN ISO 9001:2015 To ensure a consistently high quality standard and user-friendliness, this documentation was created to meet the regulations of a quality management system which complies with the requirements of the standard DIN EN ISO 9001:2015. Copyright and Trademarks Copyright © 2021 Fujitsu Technology Solutions GmbH. All rights reserved. Delivery subject to availability; right of technical modifications reserved. All hardware and software names used are trademarks of their respective manufacturers. 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Table of Contents openSM2 . 10 1 Preface . 11 1.1 Objectives and target groups of this manual . 12 1.2 Summary of contents . 13 1.3 Changes since the last edition of this manual . 14 1.4 Notational conventions . 15 2 The SM2 monitoring program . 16 2.1 Overview . 17 2.2 Operating modes . 18 2.3 Users . 19 2.4 Table of authorizations . 20 2.5 Activating a monitoring task . 22 2.6 Acquisition of monitored data . 23 2.7 Monitoring cycle . 25 2.8 Outputting and saving monitored data . 26 2.9 Monitored variables . 27 2.10 Use in a computer network . 30 3 System monitoring with openSM2 . 33 3.1 Performance expectations of the user . 34 3.2 Applications . 36 3.3 Ensuring efficient DP system usage . 38 3.4 Analyzing monitored data . 39 4 SM2 monitoring programs . 40 4.1 Overview . 41 4.2 Privileged SM2 monitoring programs . 44 4.2.1 BCAM-CONNECTION Monitored data on connection sets . 45 4.2.2 CHANNEL-IO Monitored data on the channel load . 49 4.2.3 CMS Monitored data on the catalog management system . 50 4.2.4 COSMOS Monitored data on the system for bottleneck analysis . 51 4.2.5 DAB Monitored data on DAB activities . 52 4.2.6 DISK-FILE Monitored data on file access for selected disks . 53 4.2.7 DLM Monitored data on lock requests . 54 4.2.8 FILE Monitored data on file access for selected files . 55 4.2.9 HSMS Monitored data on file migration . 56 4.2.10 ISAM Monitored data on ISAM pools . 57 4.2.11 MSCF Monitored data on communication between hosts . 58 4.2.12 NSM Monitored data on HIPLEX MSCF . 59 4.2.13 OPENFT Monitored data on openFT . 60 4.2.14 PERIODIC-TASK Monitored data on tasks . 61 4.2.15 POSIX Monitored data on POSIX . 62 4.2.16 PUBSET Monitoring data for SF pubsets and volume sets . 63 4.2.17 RESPONSETIME Monitored data on the BCAM pool . 64 4.2.18 SAMPLING-DEVICE Monitored data on I/Os, data volume and utilization of devices . 69 4.2.19 SERVICETIME Monitored data on the service time . 70 4.2.20 SESAM-SQL Monitored data for the SESAM/SQL database system . 72 4.2.21 SVC Monitored data on SVC calls . 73 4.2.22 SYSTEM Global system and category-specific monitored data . 74 4.2.23 TASK Task-specific monitored data . 75 4.2.24 TCP-IP Monitored data on TCP/IP connections . 76 4.2.25 TLM Monitored data on locks . 77 4.2.26 UDS-SQL Monitored data for the UDS/SQL database system . 78 4.2.27 UTM Monitored data on openUTM applications . 79 4.2.28 VM CPU shares of guest systems under VM2000 . 80 4.3 Nonprivileged SM2 monitoring programs . 81 4.3.1 FILE Monitored data on file access . 82 4.3.2 ISAM Monitored data on ISAM pools . 83 4.3.3 TASK Task-specific monitored data . 84 5 SM2 operation . 85 5.1 Starting and terminating SM2 . 87 5.2 Overview of SM2 operation . 89 5.3 Statements for SM2 administrators . 91 5.3.1 ADD-BCAM-CONNECTION-SET Add connection set for BCAM-CONNECTION monitoring . 95 5.3.2 ADD-CONNECTION-SET Add connection set for RESPONSETIME monitoring . 98 5.3.3 ADD-COSMOS-EVENT Define events for monitored-data acquisition . 100 5.3.4 ADD-FILE Define file to be monitored . 102 5.3.5 ADD-ISAM-FILE Define an ISAM pool to be monitored . 103 5.3.6 ADD-ISAM-POOL Define ISAM pool to be monitored . 104 5.3.7 ADD-OPENFT-INSTANCE Add openFT instance for monitoring . 105 5.3.8 CALL-ADMINISTRATION-PART Switch from evaluation part to administration part . 106 5.3.9 CALL-EVALUATION-PART Switch from administration part to evaluation part . 107 5.3.10 CHANGE-MEASUREMENT-PROGRAM Stop current monitoring program run and restart it with new monitored objects . 108 5.3.11 CLOSE-LOG-FILE Close SM2 output file . 109 5.3.12 END Terminate SM2 run . 110 5.3.13 INITIATE-COSMOS Prepare COSMOS monitoring program . 111 5.3.14 MODIFY-ADMINISTRATOR-ADMISSION Admit additional SM2 administrators . 112 5.3.15 MODIFY-COSMOS-PARAMETERS Modify parameters for COSMOS monitoring . 113 5.3.16 MODIFY-MEASUREMENT-PERIODS Modify SM2 monitoring cycle . 121 5.3.17 MODIFY-RESPONSETIME-PARAMETERS Modify parameters for RESPONSETIME monitoring . 123 5.3.18 MODIFY-USER-ADMISSION Define authorizations for nonprivileged users . 125 5.3.19 OPEN-LOG-FILE Open SM2 output file . 127 5.3.20 REMOVE-BCAM-CONNECTION-SET Exclude connection set(s) from BCAM- CONNECTION monitoring . 128 5.3.21 REMOVE-CONNECTION-SET Exclude connection set(s) from RESPONSETIME monitoring . 129 5.3.22 REMOVE-COSMOS-EVENT Remove events from COSMOS monitoring program . 130 5.3.23 REMOVE-FILE Remove file(s) from FILE monitoring program . 131 5.3.24 REMOVE-ISAM-FILE Remove ISAM pool from ISAM monitoring program . 132 5.3.25 REMOVE-ISAM-POOL Remove ISAM pool(s) from ISAM monitoring program . 133 5.3.26 REMOVE-OPENFT-INSTANCE Remove openFT instance for OPENFT monitoring program . ..