Support for TCP/IP 3.4 SMF type 118 (INCOMPATIBLE) changes.
Support for NCR Teradata DBS performance data.
Support for Landmark's SQL/CAPTURE Products 'D6' record.
Support for XCOM Release 3.0 (COMPATIBLE).
Support for Soft Audit's Installed Products File.
Support for BGS I/O Monitor Version 5.1.0 (COMPAT).
Support for HSM APAR OW31281 adds RECALL, DSR, FSR statistics.
Support for DFSMS 1.4.0 added WFSCPUTM for ABARS CPU cost.
Support for NTSMF CachingManager and Packet Filter objects.
Support for NT Service Pack 5A SYSTEM/PROCESS fields.
Major revision of TMS/CA-1 processing logic in TYPETMS5.
ML-17 of MXGTMNT/ASMTAPES synchronizes automatically.
Enhanced TPM support reads all possible variables in TYPETPMX.
Analysis of SMF Write Rates (MEGABYTES at 10/100sec)
MXG CONFIG value of VMCTLISA=40K raised to 160K.
VMXGSUM syntax for "DATETIME" now uses real name.
ABEND/CONDCODE in PDB.JOBS is now valid, has 1st ABEND.
(MXG 16.03 was only released as a Beta.)
Major enhancements added in MXG 16.02:
Support for TYPEIMS7 for IMS 6.1.
Support for OS/400 Version 4.2.0 COMPATIBLE.
Support for MQ Series Version 1 Release 2 INCOMPATIBLE.
Support for Landmark's Monitor for DB2 V 3.1 INCOMPATIBLE.
Support for Candle Omegamon V400 CANMQ and CANWLMSC.
Support for Candle Omegamon CICS V400 "255" record.
Support for Raptor Systems' Eagle Firewall 121 Log.
Support for TME 10 NetView for OS/390 V1 R1 SMF 38.
Support for Web Proxy logs Extended Common Log fmt.
Support for Magstar tapes in TYPETMS5 INCOMPATIBLE.
&PDBxxxx and &yyyzzz "Dataset &Macro" naming rules.
New PDB datasets TYPE74CO/ME/PA/SY/OM/LK added to daily PDB.
New ANALABND report ABENDs from PDB.STEPS, uses PROC TABULATE.
Multiple JES3 purge records created duplicate PDB.JOBS obs.
All MXG variables with format MGBYTES are now stored in 8-bytes.
New ANAL6264 merges VSAM type 62 and 64 for OPENTIME.
Major enhancements added in MXG 16.01:
The major thing in 16.01 is support for Year 2000 products that
were not Y2K compliant when 15.15 was built, so MXG 16.01 is now
the minimum level to support all vendor records that provide year
2000 dates, but there are also a few fixes and several enhancements
and new products supported.
Year 2000 issues that require MXG 16.01 or the specific change:
TYPE6 READTIME was 1900 in 2000 due to MXG error (Change 16.039).
AS/400 Year 2000 Support was Incorrect (Change 16.035).
NETVIEW NPM type 28 year Y2K Ready but INCOMPATIBLE record change.
Landmark TMON for CICS V2 converted to V8.1 Y2K Ready, INCOMPAT.
IPAC RDS View Direct V 6.1 Y2K Ready, but INCOMPATIBLE change.
MXG Software now warrants it is "Year 2000 Ready".
Support for new NTSMF objects (Database, SMTP Server, WEB Service).
Support for revised NTSMF Active Server Pages and IISG records.
Support for Software Engineering's SpaceManager data records.
Support for DECnet/SNA DTF SMF records.
MXG 15.15 problems reported and fixed:
Variable MXGVERSN in TYPE70 was blank in 15.15; impacts CPEXPERT.
Deactivated PR/SM Partition may cause over 100% CPU Busy for CEC.
All of these enhancements are described in the Change Log, below.
Availability dates for the IBM products and MXG version required:
Availability MXG Version
Product Name Date Required
MVS/ESA 4.1 Oct 26, 1990 8.8
MVS/ESA 4.2 Mar 29, 1991 9.9
MVS/ESA 4.2.2 Aug 1991 9.9
MVS/ESA 4.3 Mar 23, 1993 10.10
MVS/ESA 5.1.0 - compatibility Jun 24, 1994 12.02
MVS/ESA 5.1.0 - Goal Mode May 3, 1995 13.01
MVS/ESA 5.2.0 Jun 15, 1995 13.05
MVS/ESA 5.2.2 Oct 19, 1995 13.09
OS/390 1.1.0 Feb 22, 1996 14.01
OS/390 1.2.0 Sep 30, 1996 14.05
OS/390 1.3.0 Compatibility Mode Mar 28, 1997 14.14
OS/390 1.3.0 WLM Goal Mode Mar 28, 1997 15.02
OS/390 2.4.0 Sep 28, 1997 15.06
OS/390 2.5.0 Feb 24, 1998 15.06
OS/390 2.6.0 Sep 24, 1998 16.04
OS/390 2.7.0 Mar 26, 1999 16.09
CICS/ESA 3.2 Jun 28, 1991 9.9
CICS/ESA 3.3 Mar 28, 1992 10.01
CICS/ESA 4.1 Oct 27, 1994 13.09
CICS/ESA 5.1 aka CICS/TS V1R1 Sep 10, 1996 14.07
CICS-Transaction Server V1R1 Sep 10, 1996 14.07
CICS-TS V1R1 with APAR UN98309 Sep 15, 1997 15.06
CICS-TS V1R2 Oct 27, 1997 15.06
CICS-TS V1R3 Mar ??, 1999 16.09
CRR 1.6 Jun 24, 1994 12.02
CRR 1.7 Apr 25, 1996 14.02
DB2 2.3.0 Oct 28, 1991 10.01
DB2 3.1.0 Dec 17, 1993 13.02A
DB2 4.1.0 Tolerate Nov 7, 1995 13.07
DB2 4.1.0 Full support Sep 11, 1996 14.07
DB2 5.1.0 Tolerate Jun 27, 1997 14.14
DB2 5.1.0 Full support Jun 27, 1997 15.02
DB2 6.1.0 Mar ??, 1999 16.09
DFSMS/MVS 1.1 Mar 13, 1993 11.11
DFSMS/MVS 1.2 Jun 24, 1994 12.02
DFSMS/MVS 1.3 Dec 29, 1995 13.09
DFSMS/MVS 1.4 Sep 28, 1997 15.04
DFSMS/MVS 1.4 HSM Sep 23, 1998 16.04
MQM 1.1.2, 1.1.3, 1.1.4 Apr 25, 1996 14.02
MQ Series 1.2.0 May 26, 1998 16.02
NETVIEW 3.1 type 37 ??? ??, 1996 14.03
NPM 2.0 Dec 17, 1993 12.03
NPM 2.2 Aug 29, 1994 12.05
NPM 2.3 ??? ??, 1996 15.08
NPM 2.4 Nov 18, 1998 16.06
RMDS 2.1, 2.2 Dec 12, 1995 12.12
TCP/IP 3.1 Jun 12, 1995 12.12
TCP/IP 3.4 Sep 22, 1998 16.04
DOS/VSE POWER V6.3.0 Dec 19, 1998 16.08
VM/ESA 2.0 Dec 23, 1992 10.04
VM/ESA 2.1 Jun 27, 1993 12.02
VM/ESA 2.2 Nov 22, 1994 12.06
VM/ESA 2.3 ??? ??, ???? 16.08
IMS 4.1 Jul 4, 1994 12.02
IMS 5.1 Jun 9, 1996 14.05
IMS 6.1 ??? ?, 199? 16.04
AS400 3.7.0 Nov 1, 1996 15.01
AS400 4.1.0 Dec 30, 1996 15.08
AS400 4.2.0 Apr 27, 1998 16.02
Availability dates for non-IBM products and MXG version required:
MXG Version
Product Name Required
Microsoft
Windows NT 4.0 and NT 3.51 14.14
Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 2 15.03
Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 5 16.04
Demand Technology
NTSMF Version 1 Beta 14.11
NTSMF Version 2.0 15.05
NTSMF Version 2.1 15.06
NTSMF Version 2.2 16.04
Landmark
The Monitor for DB2 Version 2 13.06
The Monitor for DB2 Version 3.0 16.02
The Monitor for DB2 Version 3.1 16.02
The Monitor for CICS/ESA 1.2 - 12.12
The Monitor for CICS/ESA 1.3 - 15.01
The Monitor for CICS/ESA 2.0 - 15.06
The Monitor for MVS/ESA 1.3 - 12.05
The Monitor for MVS/ESA 1.5 - 12.05
The Monitor for MVS/ESA 2.0 - 15.09
Candle
Omegamon for CICS V200 User SMF 12.05
Omegamon for CICS V300 User SMF 13.06
Omegamon for CICS V400 User SMF 16.02
Omegamon for CICS V400 type 110 segments 16.02
Omegamon for IMS V110 (ITRF) 12.12
Omegamon for IMS V300 (ITRF) 14.04
Omegamon for MVS V300 13.05
Omegamon for MVS V400 13.06
Omegamon for DB2 Version 2.1/2.2 13.05
Omegamon for VTAM V160 12.04A
Omegamon for VTAM V400 15.15
Omegamon for SMS V100/V110 12.03
CA
ACF2 6.2 16.04
ASTEX 2.1 14.04
NETSPY 4.7 14.03
NETSPY 5.0 14.03
NETSPY 5.2 16.05
Boole & Babbage
IMF 3.1 (for IMS 5.1) 12.12
IMF 3.2 (for IMS 6.1 only) 15.09
IMF 3.2 (for IMS 5.1 and 6.1) 16.04
Memorex/Telex
LMS 3.1 12.12A
MXG IMS-Log Not-Officially-Supported
IMS 6.1 - ASMIMSL6/TYPEIMSA 16.06
IMS 5.1 - ASMIMSL5/TYPEIMSA 16.01
Amdahl
APAF 4.1, 4.3 16.08
II. MXG Technical Notes
1. Counting tape mounts.
Tape mount counts from the MXGTMNT monitor can be compared with the
tape mount counts (TAPNMNTS+TAPSMNTS) in the step records, and there
can be differences, mostly due to the difference in time-frame of
the mount records (when they occur) and the step records (when the
step ended):
- MXG will count high for Started Tasks that never end (e.g.DFHSM),
or for any job whose step record had not yet been written in the
SMF time-frame you examined.
- MXG will count low for steps that ended in the SMF time-frame, but
whose mounts occurred before the start of that SMF file.
- MXG counts physical mount events, but the type 30 counts completed
mounts, so when your tapeape intentionally mounts the wrong VOLSER
five times
if they can't find the right tape, they mount any tape, knowing
MVS label-check will prevent it from being used, but any mount
terminates the outstanding mount message so the MVS console guy
can't see how long the real mount has been waiting!
the MXG count is five mounts, the step record count is one.
- MXG misses some VTS scratch mounts, when using the default two
second sampling in MXGTMNT, because scratch mounts to VTS can be
fast. In one day MXG missed 200 VTS scratch mounts out of 2000
total VTS mounts with the two second sampling, but MXGTMNT saw
all of the VTS scratch mounts with one-half second sampling.
Recommendations:
If you want to compare totals, use the TYPE30_V or PDB.SMFINTRV data
from type 30 interval records instead of TYPE30_4 or PDB.STEPS data
to minimize (but not eliminate) time-frame error, since the interval
records will count the mounts for those long-running jobs and STCs.
If you do have Virtual Tape Devices, you could change the interval
constant in member ASMTAPES (INTERVAL DC F'200' to DC F'050') to
change the MXG default of 2.00 seconds to 0.50 seconds, and then
re-assemble to change the MXGTMNT program to sample at half-second
intervals. While 2 seconds is still the MXG default, half-second
was tested and briefly suggested as an alternative, as the CPU cost
was still small:
At half-second sampling, it took less than 3 CPU seconds per
15 minute interval to scan 100 tape devices, and another 1 CPU
second for every 100 tape mounts, or a few minutes per day with
2000 mounts.
However, even with .5 second interval, the mount monitor missed some
fast VTS mounts, which caused me to create the completely new logic
in the ASUMTAPE program, which creates the new PDB.ASUMTAPE dataset
(that should be used in place of PDB.TYPETMNT in tape mount
analysis). The new logic is driven by the type 21 dismount record,
so even if MXGTMNT missed the fast mount, PDB.ASUMTAPE has the tape
event, albeit with the tape mount duration missing (so you know it
was less than 2 secs!), so the original 2 second default was kept.
If you decide to change the sample interval, you can compare the
number of observations in PDB.ASUMTAPE that have missing TAPMNTTM,
to see how many more of the fast-scratch-VTS-mounts you actually
capture at 1/2 second instead of the MXG default of 2 seconds.
III. MVS Technical Notes.
1. APAR OW35684 confirms that the BLKSIZE in the DD segments of type 30
records is correct for tape but incorrect for a DASD dataset that is
being opened for output DISP=NEW when DADSM allocate did not
determine a system determined blocksize (SDB) even though BLKSIZE=0
was specified on the DD statement. DADSM SDB processing was not
done because DSORG and/or LRECL were not also specified. The APAR
is closed "FIN" - Fixed in Next DF/SMS Release in 18-24 months.
2. APAR OW31700 RMF OS/390 type 74 subtype 5 describes "short records"
created when there are more than 153 devices on a cache controller
(because 153 segments fills the 32756-byte limit of SMF data). They
have no impact on MXG, as MXG reads each record and outputs from
each device data section (but IBM had to add counters so RMF
could reassemble the large event from these 32K "small" records).
There may be an error, as I have seen type 74 subtype 5 records with
only the Product and Control section, with no status nor data and
with R745CCNT, record sequence, of 2. Site is talking to IBM.
3. SMF type 42 APARS:
APARs OW29633 corrects timestamps in TYPE42DS (type 42 subtype 6)
SMF records that caused SMF42PTS to be much earlier than the job's
READTIME. Reported in OW10694 (closed RET) and OW25624 (closed PER)
the actual error was a failure to freemain between jobs, so you
would have someone else's READTIME in your record. This error was
not fixed to correct SMF, but because someone's system stayed up
long enough that the memory leak causes a storage shortage ABEND!
APAR OW32248 discusses type 42 VSAM/RLS counter errors, affecting
SMF41IAY/IAZ/IBA/IBB/ICY/ICZ/IDA/IDB/IBG/IDG fields.
APAR OW35762 corrects count of SEQ blocks read and written for PS
datasets on non-SMS managed volumes.
4. APAR OW35952 corrects large value for IOUNITS in type 30 records;
the problem primarily affected DB2 address spaces with very large
(but legitimate) I/O counts that caused an overflow internally in
IBM code. The APAR text cites negative values in SMF30IO (IOUNITS),
but as MXG uses PIB instead of IB, very, very large values (so they
are noticed!) are created rather than small negative values.
5. APAR PQ18797 for MQ Series Release 1.3.0, PTF UQ23424 corrects zero
values for 'QMSTxxxx' variables in dataset MQMMSGDM from type 115
SMF record subtype 2.
IV. DB2 Technical Notes.
1. Boole and Babbage's MainView for DB2 product's THRDHIST VSAM file is
used for online access and its keyed record format is not public, so
MXG cannot support that file. But Boole recommends you create DB2
SMF records (their DB2 batch reports use the 100/101/102 records) so
THRDHIST was never intended to be useful for accounting or trending.
2. MXG Newsletter 34 reported that after installing APAR PN55122 and
migrating to CICS 5.1, that LU6.2 terminal's QWHCTOKN no longer had
the UOWID token in their DB2ACCT record (as a result, MXG's ASUMUOW
could not match DB2ACCT to CICSTRAN by Unit-of-Work ID). IBM has
now released APAR PQ15565 (and PTF UQ18583) to correct their error.
3. APARs PQ10864/PQ06968/PQ10864 discuss excessive numbers of DB2 type
101 SMF records that are created with CPU parallelism; if your DB2
application is running with more than 1 degree of CPU parallelism,
the child tasks will create SMF 101 accounting records every time
they are spawned (i.e., every SQL execution). In cases where an
application loops thru static SQL frequently or for transaction type
queries the volume can be a very serious problem. Use the DSNZPARM
macro DSN6SYSP PTASKROL parameter for parallel task accounting
control. APAR PQ06968 has been created to allow RLF to disable
modes of parallelism during static BIND; by using RLFFUNC=4 during
BIND, you can force problem applications back to IOP parallelism
(versus CPU parallelism). APAR PQ28414 provides a new ability to
limit the degree of query parallelism, and provides a maximum degree
parameter, PARAMDEG, and adds the field to the install process in
Version 6. This note updated with IBM input 19Dec1999.
V. IMS Technical Notes.
VI. SAS Technical Notes.
1. MXG 16.05 QA stream has executed using the SAS Version 7 Beta, under
OS/390, Windows 95/98 and Windows NT. Minor changes were needed in
MXG code, mostly to circumvent Beta things that SAS will have fixed
by the Production release this fall. A complete list will be in a
future MXG Technical Note when Version 7 is available.
Initial performance measurements of the MXG QA stream show no change
in the runtime between Version 6.12 TS045 and Version 7 Beta, so
it looks like lots of new features at no cost, for a change!
SAS Version 7 datasets cannot be read by SAS Version 6; the format
of SAS data libraries on all platforms was changed incompatibly.
Fortunately, MXG will not exploit on any SAS Version 7 features in
the near future, and there are no compelling reasons to migrate to
SAS Version 7 (run times and resources were about the same), but
when you do migrate to SAS V7, you will either have to drop it in
all at once, or at least you will need to install from the back end:
convert your report programs first and then convert the programs
that build the datasets that the reports use.
2. RETAIN statement only retains variables in assignment statements.
You cannot use a RETAIN statement with SET A B logic to retain the
value of variable A from dataset A into processing of observations
from dataset B. While the A variable will exist in the OUT dataset
its value will be missing:
DATA A; A=1;
DATA B; DO B=1 TO 5; OUTPUT B; END;
DATA OUT; SET A B;
RETAIN A;
To retain the value of variable A, you must assign it to a new name
(AA) while reading an observation from dataset A, retain that AA
name, and then when reading an observation from dataset B, assign AA
back to its original name A (and then DROP variable AA from OUT):
DATA OUT; SET A (IN=INA) B (IN=INB);
RETAIN AA; DROP AA;
IF INA THEN AA=A;
IF INB THEN DO; A=AA; OUTPUT; END;
Fortunately, variable A's attributes (LABEL, FORMAT, etc) are indeed
propagated into variable A in the OUT dataset.
3. SAS 6.09 TS455 and TS460 on MVS may encounter SAS "VM1319" or "NO
MKLEs" ABENDs, due to a memory overlay introduced by TS455. SAS ZAP
Z609E449 exists and is flagged as REQUIRED, but is not a true fix.
That ZAP forces SAS options MVARSIZE=0 and MSYMSIZE=0, which causes
%MACRO variables and symbol tables to be written/read to/from disk
instead of from memory. By reducing memory for macros, the overlay
may be avoided, but depending on how %macros are used, that ZAP
could impact runtime performance. The text of ZAP Z609E449 suggests
that increasing MEMSIZE may circumvent the error, since the overlay
is less likely with more addressability, so if you encounter the
error, first increase MEMSIZE by 8MB (and remember to increase your
REGION size), and then if that doesn't work, then either install the
ZAP, or install its effect by setting MVARSIZE=0 and MSYMSIZE=0
yourself.
4. SAS 6.09 TS455/TS460 do not free memory for user formats, which can
cause an out of memory error if there are repeated references to a
user format, e.g.,a DO Loop around PUT(variable,format) statement
where the format is NOT one supplied with SAS (MGxxxxx formats or
your own build with PROC FORMAT are "user formats").
SAS ZAP Z609F331 will correct this memory "leak".
VII. CICS Technical Notes.
1. There are two CICS summary programs in MXG:
ASUMCICS summarizes the detail CICSTRAN.CICSTRAN transactions, so
variable NUMTRANS counts the number of transactions.
ASUMCICX summarizes the already-summarized ASUMUOW unit-of-work
dataset, so NUMTRANS counts the number of unit's-of-work,
and variable MROTRANS counts the number of CICSTRAN
transactions that were executed by that unit-of-work.
2. APAR PQ13647 corrects invalid Y2K date in IBM type 110 subtype 2
TS Server records written by CICS TS 1.1 and 1.2. The dates will
contain 1AYY instead of 20YY without this fix.
VIII. Windows NT Technical Notes.
There are no Windows NT Technical Notes in this Newsletter.
IX. Incompatibilities and Installation of MXG 16.16.
1. Incompatibilities introduced in MXG 16.16 (since MXG 15.15):
a- IMACs that were changed (if they exist in your USERID.SOURCLIB, you
must refit your tailoring, starting with the new IMAC member):
IMACPDB - new PDB.STEPS/PDB.JOBS CONDCODE. Change 16.106
b- Other incompatibility changes:
All MGBYTES formatted variables are now length 8, instead of 4.
If you use PROC APPEND without FORCE, SAS will ERROR when you try
to combine new and old datasets with dissimilar length variables.
c- These products were incompatibly changed by their vendor, and they
require MXG Version 16.01 as indicated:
MXG Y2K support for AS/400 MXG 16.01 Change 16.035
CA-1/TMS TYPETMS5 with Magstar drives MXG 16.02 Change 16.088
LANDMARK CICS V2 recs convert to V8.1 MXG 16.01 Change 16.049
LANDMARK DB2 V 3.1 MXG 16.02 Change 16.097
MQ Series V1 R2 SMF 115 MQMLOG dataset MXG 16.02 Change 16.099
MXG Y2K support for Type 6 SMF record MXG 16.01 Change 16.039
NETVIEW NPM (Year 2000 dates) MXG 16.01 Change 16.003
NTSMF EXCHANGE 5.5 MXG 16.01 Change 16.024
2. Installation and re-installation procedures are described in detail
in member INSTALL (which also lists common Error/Warning messages a
new user might encounter), and sample JCL is in member JCLINSTL.
X. Online Documentation of MXG Software.
MXG Documentation is now described in member DOCUMENT.
XI. Changes Log
==========================Changes Log=================================
You MUST read each Change description to determine if a Change will
impact your site. All changes have been made in this MXG Library.
Member CHANGES of the MXG SOURCLIB will always be more accurate than
the printed changes in a Newsletter, because the software is normally
created after the newsletter is sent to the printer! Member CHANGES
on the www.MXG.com homepage are the most timely, as they are updated
(sometimes) between MXG versions.
Member CHANGES always identifies the actual version and release of
MXG Software that is contained in that library.
The actual code implementation of some changes in MXG SOURCLIB may be
different than described in the change text (which might have printed
only the critical part of the correction that can be made by paper).
Scan each source member named in any impacting change for any comments
at the beginning of the member for additional documentation, since the
documentation of new datasets, variables, validation status, and notes,
are often found in comments in the source members.
Alphabetical list of important changes after MXG 15.15 now in MXG 16.16:
Dataset/
Member Change Description
Many 16.216 Support for OS/390 Release 2.6 (COMPATIBLE).
Many 16.078 MXG variables with format MGBYTES are now 8-bytes.
Many 16.068 &PDBxxxx and &yyyzzz "Dataset &Macro" naming rules.
ADOCQAPM 16.301 Enhanced documentation for AS/400 processing
ANAL6264 16.071 Analysis merges VSAM type 62 and 64 for OPENTIME.
ANALABND 16.082 ABEND stats from PDB.STEPS, uses PROC TABULATE.
ANALCISH 16.104 MORE THAN 32767, MORE THAN 10 errors corrected.
ANALPATH 16.006 SUBSCRIPT OUT OF RANGE, report expected 10 LCUs max.
ANALRMFR 16.295 ANALRMFR RMF reports added REPORT=XCF.
ANALSRVC 16.098 Report now works for CPU Percent by Service Class.
ANALUOW 16.075 Enhancements, DB2 Class 3 waits. etc were added.
ANALVTS 16.162 Analysis combines 30s, TMNT, TALO and 21s for tapes.
ANANCNCR 16.206 COUNT= option corrected.
ASMIMSL5 16.058 ASMIMSL5 in MXG 15.15 failed during assembly.
ASMIMSL6 16.185 Support for IMS Log processing for IMS 6.1.
ASMMNVW 16.247 Support for decompression of MainView history files.
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