Collection Services data files: QAPMDPS

This database file contains data port services performance data. Data port services is Licensed Internal Code (LIC) that supports the transfer of large volumes of data between a source system and one of N specified (switchable) target systems in a IBM® i cluster.

Data port services, such as remote independent ASP mirroring, is used by LIC clients. There is one record per IP address per client per collection interval.

Field Name Description Attribute
INTNUM Interval number: The nth sample database interval based on the start time specified in the Create Performance Data (CRTPFRDTA) command. PD (5,0)
DTETIM Interval date (yymmdd) and time (hhmmss): The date and time of the sample interval. C (12)
INTSEC Elapsed interval seconds: The number of seconds since the last sample interval. PD (7,0)
DTECEN Century digit. 0 indicates 19xx, and 1 indicates 20xx. C (1)
DPTYPE Client type. The type of client that is registered to data port services:
  • 1 -- Remote independent ASP mirroring.
B (4,0)
DPNAME Client name. The name of the client registered to data port services. This name is unique for a particular client type but might not be unique across all client types. This name is defined as follows by client type:
  • 1 -- ASP resource name of remotely mirrored primary independent ASP.
C (10)
DPIPV IP version. This field defines the IP version (4 or 6) for the target IP address. B (4,0)
DPIPAD Target IP address. The IP address of the target system. This record reports statistics for the client's communication on the connection associated with this IP address. An IP version 4 address, which is 4 bytes wide, is right-justified and padded with zeroes. H (16)
DPIPAS Target IP address status. The valid value for this field is 1 or 0. The value of this field is 1 if the target IP address is currently being used for messaging; otherwise, it is 0. C (1)
DPNID Target node ID. The node ID of the target system in the cluster. C (8)
DPDTA1 Client data 1. Optional data provided by the client. This data is defined as follows by client type:
  • 1 -- ASP number of remotely mirrored primary independent ASP.
B (9,0)
DPDTA2 Client data 2. Optional data provided by the client. This data is defined as follows by client type:
  • 1 -- Not defined.
B (9,0)
DPDTA3 Client data 3. Optional data provided by the client. This data is defined as follows by client type:
  • 1 -- Not defined.
C (10)
DPDTA4 Client data 4. Optional data provided by the client. This data is defined as follows by client type:
  • 1 -- Not defined.
C (40)
DPASYN Asynchronous mode. The valid value for this field is 1 or 0. The value of this field is 1 for asynchronous mode; otherwise, this field is 0 for synchronous mode. For asynchronous mode, the client sends a message and receives an ACK back when the message is received but before it is processed by the remote client. For synchronous mode, the client sends a message and receives an ACK back after the message is received and processed by the remote client. C (1)
DPMS Messages sent. The number of messages sent by the client. This value is incremented when the client requests a send; it does not depend on whether the send is successful. B (18,0)
DPAS Acknowledgments sent. The number of acknowledgments (ACKs) sent by the client. B (18,0)
DPNS Negative acknowledgments sent. The number of negative acknowledgments (NACKs) sent by the client. B (18,0)
DPMR Messages received. The number of messages received by the client. B (18,0)
DPAR Acknowledgments received. The number of acknowledgments (ACKs) received by the client. B (18,0)
DPNR Negative acknowledgments received. The number of negative acknowledgments (NACKs) received by the client. B (18,0)
DPMRO Messages retried once. The number of client messages retried only once. The messages counted are those associated with a data port services initiated retry and not a TCP-initiated retry. B (18,0)
DPMRM Messages retried more than once. The number of client messages retried more than once. The messages counted are those associated with data port services initiated retries and not TCP-initiated retries. If a message is retried two or more times, then this value is incremented by 1. B (18,0)
DPTMR Total message retries. The total number of client message retries. The retries counted are data port services initiated retries and not TCP-initiated retries. If a message is retried n times, then this value is incremented by n. B (18,0)
DPMRR Messages rerouted to alternate address. The number of messages rerouted to an alternate IP address because the attempt to transmit the message timed out too many times. B (18,0)
DPMNA Messages not acknowledged. The number of client messages sent that did not receive an ACK or NACK in response. B (18,0)
DPMBR Message bytes received. The number of bytes associated with messages received by the client. This does not include bytes associated with retries or ACK and NACK responses. B (18,0)
DPMBS Message bytes sent. The number of bytes associated with messages sent by the client. This does not include bytes associated with retries or ACK and NACK responses. This value is incremented when the client requests a send; it does not depend on whether the send is successful. B (18,0)
DPSMS Small messages sent. Number of messages of size less than or equal to 4K sent by the client. B (18,0)
DPMMS Medium messages sent. Number of messages of size greater than 4K but less than or equal to 64K sent by the client. B (18,0)
DPLMS Large messages sent. Number of messages of size greater than 64K sent by the client. B (18,0)
DPSRTT Smoothed round trip time in microseconds. Current estimate of the average round trip time up to the time the data was collected (see DTETIM field). This estimate is maintained by data port services. The round trip time is the time it takes for a client message to be sent and acknowledged successfully. B (18,0)
DPTRTT Total round trip time in microseconds. The sum of all of the round trip times. The round trip time is the time it takes for a client message to be sent and acknowledged successfully. Divide this value by round trips to get the average round trip time. B (18,0)
DPRT Round trips. The number of round trips. Divide total round trip time by this value to get average round trip time. B (18,0)