Reports generated by the IMS Monitor for MSC
The IMS Monitor Report Print Program includes three reports that highlight message events caused by system coupling.
The reports are:
- MSC Traffic report
- Shows for a specified interval, the counts of messages using the various link paths. This report can be used to assess cross-system queueing
- MSC Summaries report
- Shows summaries of the traffic queues for each input transaction name, each destination name, each link number, and each destination system. The MSC Summaries report can be used to assess link loads.
- MSC Queuing Summary report
- Shows how long messages spend on queues and the numbers of messages on queues. The MSC Queueing Summary Report is generated when intersystem messages are queued on the local system before the messages are sent to the destination system. The local system must be an intermediate system.
All three reports can have entries in the Distribution Appendix, so that you can examine the frequency distributions of the traffic if you suspect unusual transmission patterns. The Distribution Appendix displays multiple occurrences of an event across a range of values relevant to the event, such as wait times. For example, in the case of wait times, the Distribution Appendix allows you to easily see how often a given event occurs with a specific wait time and what the distribution of the event is across a range of wait times.