Temporary storage - MTSQGBL
The Monitor data for temporary storage (MTSQGBL) views display information about temporary storage queue usage within monitored CICS systems.
Supplied views
To access from the main menu, click:
| View | Notes |
|---|---|
| Monitor data for temporary storage EYUSTARTMTSQGBL.DETAILED |
Detailed information about a selected temporary storage queue |
| Monitor data for temporary storage EYUSTARTMTSQGBL.DISCARD |
Removes temporary storage queue usage from CICSPlex SM monitoring for the current sample interval and discards the accumulated statistics. |
| Monitor data for temporary storage EYUSTARTMTSQGBL.RESET |
Resets the CICSPlex SM statistics counters associated with temporary storage queue usage to 0. |
| Monitor data for temporary storage EYUSTARTMTSQGBL.TABULAR |
Tabular information about temporary storage queue usage |
Actions
| Action | Description |
|---|---|
| DISCARD | Removes temporary storage queue usage from CICSPlex SM monitoring for the current sample interval and discards the accumulated statistics. |
| RESET | Resets the CICSPlex SM statistics counters associated with temporary storage queue usage to 0. |
Fields
| Field | Attribute name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Times auxiliary storage exhausted | AUXFULL | The number of times when one or more transactions were suspended because no auxiliary temporary storage was available. |
| Number of temporary storage buffers | BUFFERS | The number of temporary storage buffers specified in the system initialization table (SIT) or SIT overrides. |
| Count of buffer waits | BUFFWAITS | The number of times a request was queued because all buffers were allocated to other tasks. |
| Buffer reads | BUFREADS | The number of times a control interval had to be read from disk. |
| Buffer writes | BUFWRITES | The number of WRITE I/O requests to the temporary storage data set. |
| Available bytes per control interval | BYTESPERCI | Available bytes per control interval (CI). |
| Bytes per segment | BYTESPERSEG | Available bytes per control interval (CI). |
| Number of control intervals in data set | CINUM | The number of control intervals available to auxiliary storage. |
| Number of control intervals in use | CISINUSE | Number of control intervals that are currently in use. |
| Control interval size | CISIZE | The size of the control interval, in bytes. |
| Number of temporary storage compressions | COMPRESSIONS | Number of compression made thus far. |
| GetQ auxiliary rate current sample | CURAGETQRATE | The rate at which GET/GETQ requests were issued for auxiliary temporary storage during the last sample period. |
| PutQ auxiliary rate current sample | CURAPUTQRATE | The rate at which PUT/PUTQ requests were issued to auxiliary temporary storage during the last sample period. |
| Buffer read hit rate for current sample | CURBHITRATE | The rate at which GET/GETQ requests were satisfied without physical I/O during the last sample period. |
| Auxiliary storage % full for current sample | CURFULLPER | The percentage of times a transaction was suspended because no auxiliary temporary storage was available during the last sample period. |
| GetQ main rate current sample | CURMGETQRATE | The rate at which GET/GETQ requests were issued for main temporary storage during the last sample period. |
| PutQ main rate current sample | CURMPUTQRATE | The rate at which PUT/PUTQ requests were issued to main temporary storage during the last sample period. |
| Read rate for current sample | CURREADRATE | The rate at which READ requests for a control interval were issued during the last sample period. |
| Current users waiting on buffer | CURRUWBFR | Number of users currently waiting for a buffer. |
| Current users waiting on string | CURRUWSTR | Number of users currently waiting on a string. |
| Write rate for current sample | CURWRITRATE | The rate at which WRITE I/O requests were issued to the temporary storage data set during the last sample period. |
| Entries in longest queue | ENTLGQUE | The peak number of records in any one temporary storage queue. |
| Queue extension threshold | EXTTHRESHOLD | The number of records that are held in a single temporary storage group identifier (TSGID). |
| Number of format writes | FMTWRT | The number of times a new control interval was written at the end of the data set to increase the amount of available space. |
| Get/GetQ auxiliary | GETQAUX | The number of records that application programs obtained from auxiliary temporary storage. |
| Get/Getq main | GETQMAIN | The number of records that application programs obtained from main temporary storage. |
| GetQ auxiliary rate for interval | INTAGETQRATE | The average rate at which GET/GETQ requests were issued for auxiliary temporary storage over the monitor interval. |
| PutQ auxiliary rate for interval | INTAPUTQRATE | The average rate at which PUT/PUTQ requests were issued to auxiliary temporary storage over the monitor interval. |
| Buffer read hit rate for interval | INTBHITRATE | The average rate at which GET/GETQ requests were satisfied without physical I/O over the monitor interval. |
| Interval identifier | INTERVALID | The ID of the monitor interval. |
| Auxiliary storage % full for interval | INTFULLPER | The average percentage of times a transaction was suspended because no auxiliary temporary storage was available over the monitor interval. |
| GetQ main rate for interval | INTMGETQRATE | The average rate at which GET/GETQ requests were issued for main temporary storage over the monitor interval. |
| PutQ main rate for interval | INTMPUTQRATE | The average rate at which PUT/PUTQ requests were issued to main temporary storage over the monitor interval. |
| Read rate for interval | INTREADRATE | The average rate at which READ requests for a control interval were issued over the monitor interval. |
| Write rate for interval | INTWRITRATE | The average rate at which WRITE I/O requests were issued to the temporary storage data set over the monitor interval. |
| Number of I/O errors on DSN | IOERRS | The number of I/O errors that occurred on the temporary storage data set. |
| Longest auxiliary record length | LONGAUXREC | Length of the longest auxiliary record. |
| Number of temporary storage names in use | NAMESINUSE | Number of TS(s) which are currently in use. |
| Peak CIs used | PEAKCIUSE | The peak number of control intervals containing active data at any one time. |
| Peak queue names in use | PEAKQUES | The peak number of temporary storage queue names in use at any one time. |
| Peak storage | PEAKSTG | The peak amount of virtual storage in use for temporary storage records at any one time. |
| Peak strings in use | PEAKUSDSTR | The peak number of strings in use at any one time. |
| Peak users waiting on buffers | PEAKUWBUF | The peak number of requests queued because no buffers were available. |
| Peak users waiting on strings | PEAKUWSTR | The peak number of I/O requests that were queued at any one time. |
| Put/PutQ auxiliary | PUTQAUX | The number of records that application programs wrote to auxiliary temporary storage. |
| Put/PutQ main | PUTQMAIN | The number of records that application programs wrote to main temporary storage. |
| Times queues created | QUECRECNT | The number of times that CICS created individual temporary storage queues. |
| Queue extensions created | QUEXTENDS | The number of times it was necessary to create a TSGID extension. |
| Segments per control interval | SEGSPERCI | Number of segments per control interval (CI). |
| Number of shared pools that CICS is connected to | SHRDPOOLCONN | The number of shared pools currently connected. |
| Shared pools defined | SHRDPOOLDEF | The number of shared pools defined. |
| Shared read requests | SHRDREADREQ | The number of shared read requests. |
| Shared write requests | SHRDWRITEREQ | The number of shared write requests. |
| Number of temporary storage strings | STRINGS | The number of temporary storage strings specified in the system initialization table (SIT) or SIT overrides. |
| Number of string waits | STRINGWAIT | The number of I/O requests that were queued because no strings were available. |
| Buffer writes forced for recovery | WRTFRECVR | The number of WRITE I/O requests caused by recovery being specified for queues. |
| Writes greater than CISIZE | WRTGTCISZ | The number of records written with a length greater than the control interval size. |