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MP1B: IBM MQ - Interpreting accounting and statistics data, and other utilities

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Abstract

This SupportPac contains a program for formatting IBM MQ statistics and accounting SMF records. There are other programs that help you monitor your IBM MQ system on z/OS.

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This SupportPac provides an improved program for printing accounting and statistics available in IBM MQ for z/OS.

It also provides a program that monitors queue and channel information, producing output that can be processed by a spreadsheet to monitor data over time.

Possible Uses
Processing the IBM MQ SMF data, and giving suggestions on some possible out of line conditions.
The monitoring programs can be used to show usage of queues and channels over time

New in this Release

  • Improved performance and reduced storage consumption in situations. Refer to the new "Performance tips and storage requirements section" of the MQSMF PDF documentation for more information about these changes, and ways to reduce the time that the program takes to format the SMF data.
  • More control over the data that is formatted:
    • The CFStruct record selection parameter can now be used to restrict the queues that are processed in the task accounting and queue statistics data to only those defined on the specified CF structure.
    • New parameter PrintTasksWithNoQs to control whether accounting data is formatted for tasks that have no queue activity during the SMF interval.
  • JCL samples to output the formatted SMF data to a data set or a z/OS UNIX directory.
  • Fixes for the following defects:
    • Abend and error "CEE0813S Insufficient storage was available to satisfy a get storage (CEECZST) request"  is sometimes received when the summary data is printed after the SMF data has been processed.
    • Filtering the accounting data by using the Queue, Curdepth, BPool or PageSet parameters only compares against the first queue in each SMF record.
For more information about these changes, refer to the "Changes history" section of the MQSMF PDF documentation.

Details
Author: Gwydion Tudur, IBM MQ Development, Hursley
Category: 2
Released: 28 Nov 2000
Last Updated:  24 Nov 2023
Current Version: 5.8
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Installation Instructions

Follow these steps to install the MP1B SupportPac:

  1. Download the MP1B compressed file to a temporary directory.
  2. Decompress the .zip file.
  3. Upload the files mp1b.load.xmit.bin and mp1b.jcl.xmit.bin to z/OS. The files must be uploaded to data sets that are allocated with the following attributes:
    • Record format: Fixed block (FB)
    • Logical record size: 80
    • Block size: 3200
    For example, follow these steps to upload the files by using FTP:
    a) Start an FTP session to the target z/OS system.
    b) Issue the following command to set the attributes of the data sets that are created: quote site cyl pri=1 sec=1 recfm=fb blksize=3200 lrecl=80
    c) Issue the following command to enter binary mode: bin
    d) Issue the following commands to upload the two files:
       put mp1b.load.xmit.bin 'userid.MP1B.LOAD.XMIT'
       put mp1b.jcl.xmit.bin 'userid.MP1B.JCL.XMIT'

    where userid is your z/OS user ID.
    e) End the FTP session by issuing the quit command.
  4. Issue the following commands on z/OS to receive the uploaded data sets:
    TSO RECEIVE INDSN(MP1B.LOAD.XMIT)
    TSO RECEIVE INDSN(MP1B.JCL.XMIT)

    This creates data sets userid.MP1B.LOAD and userid.MP1B.JCL.
  5. Further instructions for how to use MP1B can be found inside PDFs in the installed package.

On
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Technical Support

Category 2 SupportPacs are provided in good faith and AS-IS. There is no warranty or further service implied or committed and any supplied sample code is not supported through IBM product service channels.

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Please read the license information contained within the compressed file for this SupportPac to determine if you want to use it.

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Document Information

Modified date:
01 March 2024

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