Using INGHIST

The INGHIST command is a sysplexwide command issued against the sysplex's automation manager. It displays history information about the work items processed by the automation manager. You can specify a certain resource that you want SA z/OS to display the work history for, or you can specify a time interval that you want to see all activities for, or you can combine both criteria. Additionally you can specify the maximum number of work items to be shown. Use the WIMAX parameter to:

• limit the output if many work items exist within the specified time period
• specify the maximum number of work item records to be shown after work item expansion in fullscreen mode.

Time-interval search criteria are entered in local time. However, because the history data is stored using GMT time stamps, it is necessary for INGHIST to convert the local-time search criteria to GMT before retrieving the data. This may make it necessary for the operator to make a manual adjustment to the time-interval search criteria after a daylight-saving-time change has been set. The local-time-to-GMT conversion calculation will be one hour different after a daylight-saving-time change. Data written after a daylight-saving-time change will be retrieved as expected but data written before will be offset by one hour.

If you enter the INGHIST command without parameters, you receive the output for the complete sysplex for the period starting from the last hour before you entered this command.

In the Cmd column on the left of the INGHIST panel, you can expand each work item with the + or e command to see information about the detail actions that have been performed by the automation manager and what resources were involved.

You can collapse the expanded work items again with - or c.