Temporary storage - MTSQGBL

The Monitor data for temporary storage (MTSQGBL) views display information about temporary storage queue usage within monitored CICS systems.

Supplied views

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Monitoring views > Temporary storage queue monitoring views > Temporary storage

Table 1. Views in the supplied Monitor data for temporary storage (MTSQGBL) view set
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

Table 2. Actions available for MTSQGBL views
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

Table 3. Fields in MTSQGBL views
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.