Maintaining Statistics HDBs

Statistics and Performance HDBs are maintained in the same way. You can alter any of the HDB characteristics, such as container data set name and allocation size.

Select option 7 Maintenance from the HDB menu to maintain your HDB environment.
Figure 1. Maintain HDB definition
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                                 Maintain HDB                          More: >
Command ===> _________________________________________________________________
                                                                              
Review and update HDB definition options then press EXIT to save.             
                                                                              
Name . . . . . . CICSP1S_  Type STATS    APPLID  CICSP1__ +  Image MVS1____  
Qualifier  . . . ________  _  Explorer                                       
Description  . . Statistics HDB for CICSP1_______                           
  
Specify View . . 1  1. Options  2. Data Sets  3. Volumes 
                                                                            
Statistics Reports:                          Alert Definition             
 S  Select to specify Statistics Reports      Alert  . . ________  +      
                                                                            
 Interval Type  . . /  EOD  /  INT  /  USS  /  REQ  /  RRT    
                                                                            
Data Retention Period:                                                      
 HDB: Years  ___  Months  10_  Weeks  ___  Days  ___  Hours  ___              
 DB2: Years  ___  Months  ___  Weeks  ___  Days  ___  Hours  ___              
 
Data Set Allocation Settings:                                               
 DSN Prefix . . . . . . CICSPA__________                                    
 Management class . . . ________    (Blank for default management class)    
 Storage class  . . . . ________    (Blank for default storage class)       
  Volume serial . . . . ______      (Blank for system default volume)       
  Device type . . . . . ________    (Generic unit or device address)        
 Data class . . . . . . ________    (Blank for default data class)          
  Space Units . . . . . CYLS____    (TRKS, CYLS)                            
  Primary quantity  . . 10______    (In above units)                        
  Secondary quantity    10______    (In above units)                        
                                                                            
F1=Help  F3=Exit  F4=Prompt  F7=Backward  F8=Forward  F10=Actions  F12=Cancel
For Statistics HDBs, you can also change the types of statistics data collected. Select Select to specify Statistics Reports to review or alter the type of statistics collected. In the following example, we have activated collection for Transaction Manager statistics.
Figure 2. Activate Statistics report for data collection
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                                                                   DB2        
___          ** Report **                                 Collect  Load       
     -  ___  CICS Performance Analyzer - CICS TS          No       No         
                  ___  Alert                              No       No         
     -  ___  Regions                                      Yes      No         
             A__  Transaction Manager                     Yes      No         
Start of change             ___  Monitoring                              No       No         End of change
          -  ___  CICS Dispatcher                         Yes      No         
                  ___  Dispatcher Overview                Yes      No         
                  ___  Dispatcher TCB Modes               Yes      No         
                  ___  Dispatcher TCB Pools               Yes      No         
                  ___  MVS TCB Overview                   Yes      No         
                  ___  MVS TCBs                           Yes      No         
          -  ___  CICS Storage                            Yes      No         
                  ___  Storage Overview                   Yes      No         
                  ___  DSAs                               Yes      No         
                  ___  Domain Subpools                    Yes      No         
                  ___  Task Subpools                      Yes      No         
          +  ___  CICS Dumps                              Yes      No         
             ___  Enqueue Pools                           Yes      No         
             ___  BUNDLE Resources                        Yes      No         
     +  ___  Connectivity                                 No       No         
     +  ___  Files and Databases                          No       No         
     +  ___  Logging                                      No       No         
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Note that either activating new reports, or deactivating reports already collecting data does not change the data already collected. All the existing data can still be reported, regardless of whether collection is still active.