Creating an I/O Activity trace

Use your ISPF editor to create a JCL job that creates an I/O Activity trace.

The following JCL is an example. Remember to change the setup information (starting with // in your JCL) as appropriate for your installation.
Figure 1. I/O Activity job stream using ISPF/PDF editor

EDIT ---- ANDREW.OMPE.JOBS.IOSUMM--------------------- Columns 001 072
Command ===> ________________________________________________ Scroll ===> CSR_
****** ***************************** TOP OF DATA ******************************
0001  /*  JCL to produce an IO Activity Report  */
0002  //AWOMPEA JOB  (TTS1,YUS7),'ANDREW', 
0003  //             MSGCLASS=V,CLASS=D,NOTIFY=ANDREW
0004  //        EXEC PGM=FPECMAIN
0005  //STEPLIB  DD  DSN=OMPE.RKANMOD,DISP=SHR
0006  //INPUTDD  DD  DSN=ANDREW.OMPE.TRACES.IOA,DISP=SHR
0007  //DPMOUTDD DD  DSN=ANDREW.OMPE.OUT.IOSUMM,DISP=OVR
0008  //JOBSUMDD DD  SYSOUT=A 
0009  //SYSIN    DD  *  
0010  IOACTIVITY 
0011      REPORT
0012  EXEC
0013  ****** **************************** BOTTOM OF DATA ****************************
 F1=Help     F2=Split    F3=Exit     F5=Rfind    F6=Rchange  F7=Up
 F8=Down     F9=Swap    F10=Left    F11=Right   F12=Cancel

To submit the job, type SUBMIT on the command line and press Enter.

Example of a summary I/O Activity report

The following example shows a summary I/O Activity report.



   LOCATION: DSNCAT                  OMEGAMON for DB2 Performance Expert (V5R5M0)                      PAGE: 2-1
      GROUP: DSNCAT                             I/O ACTIVITY REPORT - SUMMARY                   REQUESTED FROM: NOT SPECIFIED
     MEMBER: V71B                                                                                           TO: NOT SPECIFIED
  SUBSYSTEM: V71B                                                                                INTERVAL FROM: 08/14/15 19:32:54.82
DB2 VERSION: V10                                                                                            TO: 08/14/15 19:56:28.53

                                                                                      CT/PT/DBD    NOT IN               AVG LEN
BUFFER POOL                     TOTALS       AET        EDM POOL                     REFERENCES  EDM POOL        AET    (BYTES)
----------------------------  -------- ---------        ---------------------------  ----------  --------  ---------  ---------

TOTAL I/O REQUESTS                  51  0.019885        CURSOR TABLE - HEADER                 1         2   0.131381    7656.00
                                                        CURSOR TABLE - DIRECTORY              1         1   0.000568     228.00
TOTAL READ I/O REQUESTS             51  0.019885        CURSOR TABLE - RDS SECTION            9         9   0.022214    1475.11
  NON-PREFETCH READS                51                  -- TOTAL PLANS -----                 11        12   0.030170    1923.64
  PREFETCH READS
    WITHOUT I/O                      0                  PACKAGE TABLE - HEADER                0         0        N/C       0.00
    WITH I/O                         0                  PACKAGE TABLE - DIRECTORY             0         0        N/C       0.00
    PAGES READ                       0                  PACKAGE TABLE - RDS SECTION           0         0        N/C       0.00
    PAGES READ / SUCC READ        0.00                  -- TOTAL PACKAGES --                  0         0        N/C       0.00

TOTAL WRITE REQUESTS                 0       N/C        DATABASE DESCRIPTORS                  0         0        N/C       0.00
  SYNCHRONOUS WRITES                 0       N/C
   COUPLING FACILITY CASTOUTS        0       N/C
   PAGES WRITTEN PER WRITE        0.00
  ASYNCHRONOUS WRITES                0       N/C
   COUPLING FACILITY CASTOUTS        0       N/C
   PAGES WRITTEN PER WRITE        0.00


ACTIVE LOG              TOTALS       AET      ARCHIVE LOG              TOTALS       AET      BOOTSTRAP DATASET      TOTALS       AET
--------------------- -------- ---------      ---------------------- -------- ---------      -------------------- -------- ---------

TOTAL WAITS                 22  0.018384                                                     TOTAL WAITS                25  0.051894

READ REQUESTS                0       N/C      READ REQUESTS                 0       N/C      READ REQUESTS              13  0.078868
                                                DASD READ                   0       N/C
                                                TAPE READ                   0       N/C

WRITE REQUESTS              22  0.018384      OFFLOAD REQUESTS              0       N/C      WRITE REQUESTS             12  0.022673
CONT. CI / WRITE          1.00                BLOCKS / OFFLOAD           0.00

OTHER WAITS                  0       N/C      OTHER WAITS                   0       N/C      CROSS-INVALIDATION ACTIVITY      TOTALS
  ALLOCATE                   0       N/C        ALLOCATE                    0       N/C      -----------------------------  --------
  DEALLOCATE                 0       N/C        DEALLOCATE                  0       N/C
  OPEN                       0       N/C        OPEN                        0       N/C      SYNCHRONOUS READS                    27
  CLOSE                      0       N/C        CLOSE                       0       N/C        REFRESHED FROM GROUP BPOOL         27
                                                HSM RECALL                  0       N/C        REFRESHED FROM DASD                 0
                                                CATALOG LOCATE              0       N/C
                                                MULTI-DATA SET TAPE         0       N/C      SEQUENTIAL PREFETCHES                 0
                                                TAPE VOL POSITIONING        0       N/C        REFRESHED FROM GROUP BPOOL          0
                                                WTOR ISSUED                 0       N/C        REFRESHED FROM DASD                 0
                                                DATA SET UNAVAILABLE        0       N/C
                                                PHYSICAL UNIT UNAV.         0       N/C
                                                RDR SERV.UNAVAILABLE        0       N/C

I/O ACTIVITY REPORT COMPLETE