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October 2014
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Creating Management Summaries
Using CA 7 Reports
Bill Sherwin
Principal Consultant
EMEA Workload Automation Team

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 100’s of reports/graphs available
 Lots of data provided
 Difficult to identify useful information
 Use the data to create summary graphs
– For management reporting
– For workload definition data analysis
– For performance monitoring
CA 7 Reporting
SASSHIS8, EARL/Easytrieve and APA Graphx

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 Create the CA 7 report to mainframe file
 Use ISPF Edit Macro to remove non-data lines
 FTP the resultant “data only” file to PC
 Selectively import data columns into Excel spreadsheet
 Sort and use Summarise function to create data grouping
 Use summarised grouped lines to create Excel graphs
Generalised Methodology

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 SASSHR13 – Abnormal Termination Report
 CA7Ex035 – Job Performance Statistics Late Jobs
 LJOB,LRUNDATE=(80001,09365) – Old Jobs
 LDSN,DSNBR=DS*,LIST=NOUSER – Unused datasets
 CA7Ex017 – Composite Queue Activity Report
 CA7Ex036 – System Performance Statistics Report
 SASSHR22 – Submission Analysis Report
Some Useful Reports

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SASSHR13 Abnormal Termination Report

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Example Edit Macro for SASSHR13

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Import the data to Excel

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Select data to import such as System Name

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Use Subtotal Function to Count

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Creates Count Summary

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Extract Count Lines to use in Graph

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Failed Job Management Summaries
211
143
83
71
59
56
56
55
21 24 25 33 39 19 21
18
18
18
151 7 14
1133 1122 1101 1100 190 88 888 887
776 666 5555 555 5 4444 4 4444 4 4 444 4 4 4333 3 33 3333 3 2 222222 2 2 222 2 2222 2 22 2 2 2 2222 2 2 113
Job Failures By CA 7 System Name
BIQALERT
MORT
BIQDIST
MID
COMC
MOTORFIL
ROLLINGR
CONTSTDB
HFT
CAISDELP
COMCDELV
CVPTAUTO

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Failed Job Management Summaries
732
277
123
58
50
43
40
201 9 161 4 131 31 2 111 110 1100 86 5 5 5 44 4 43 33 3 3 332 2 2 2 2 1 4
Job Failures by Type
A-U0999
R-C0001
A-U4038
R-JCLERR
A-S04C
A-S222
A-S0C7
A-U0000
A-S04E
A-S0C4
A-U0026
A-U0016

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Failed Job Management Summaries
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Days of Month
Failures and Restarts by Day
Number of
Restarts
Number of
Failures

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CA7Ex035 – Job Performance Statistics Late Jobs

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Late Job Management Summary
0
500
1000
1500
2000
2500
3000
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Days of Month
Late Jobs Per Day
>1 HR
LATE
LATE
JOBS

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LJOB,LRUNDATE=(80001,09365)

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Old Jobs By System Name
807
536
361
351
269
225
207
179
174
172
151
141
130 119
Old Job Count >100 By System Name
RESIDENC
ELECROLL
MID
ITALY
CVPTAUTO
COMC
TRNDVIEW
TESTCICS
MOTORAA
JHSUITE
CVPCAIS
COMCDELV

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LDSN,DSNBR=DS*,LIST=NOUSER
Number of DSN Entries by HLQ - First 2 Levels
K.ZS
E.EROL
DT.MAJORS
THC.E
THC.BT
Z.ZS
BT.IT
THC.O
ULPI.PRD
ABC.M
THC.UKMI
E.DCM
THC.B

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CA7Ex017 – Composite Queue Activity Report
0
5,000,000
10,000,000
15,000,000
20,000,000
25,000,000
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
Total Activity All Queues -v- Queue Locks
QUEUE LOCKS
TOTAL
ACTIVITY

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CA7Ex036 – System Performance Statistics Report
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Comparison of Sub-Tasks Active Time in Seconds per Day
SMF TASK ACTIVE
IN SECONDS
SUBMIT TASK
ACTIVE
IN SECONDS
JOB LOAD TASK
ACTIVE
IN SECONDS
JOB COMP TASK
ACTIVE IN SECONDS
PROMPT TIME TASK
ACTIVE IN SECS
SCHD SCAN TASK
ACTIVE IN SECONDS

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SASSHR22 – Submission Analysis Report
0
500,000
1,000,000
1,500,000
2,000,000
2,500,000
3,000,000
3,500,000
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Total Number of Times Jobs Not Submitted by Day of Month
TOTAL
TIMES NOT
SUBMITTED

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