Benefits of IBM Storage Protect instrumentation

There are benefits that are associated with using IBM Storage Protect instrumentation function over using the traditional IBM Storage Protect trace command.

The advantages of using the IBM Storage Protect instrumentation function are as follows:

• IBM Storage Protect traces potentially produce large trace files, frequently causing out-of-space conditions on file systems, and can cause significant performance degradation. With the IBM Storage Protect instrumentation function, no huge trace files are created, causing minimal performance impact.
• IBM Storage Protect instrumentation generates concise reports that collate and summarize significant performance information. The report files are typically small in size, often less than 1 MB, and are designed to have minimal impact on performance. The data is stored in memory until the instrumentation session ends.