The monitor interval
When you monitor the activity of a particular resource, you are usually interested in its performance over a specific period of time. Therefore, when you define a CICSplex to CICSPlex® SM, you specify a monitor interval for the CICSplex.
Use the CICSplex definitions view (CPLEXDEF object) to define a CICSplex. The monitor interval is a period of time, at the end of which counters holding derived monitoring data are reset to zero. For example, if you set the monitor interval to 60 minutes, counters are incremented for 60 minutes, then are reset to zero and the accumulation of monitoring data starts again. This sequence is repeated while monitoring is active. The interval is specified in minutes (15 through 1440), and defaults to 480 minutes (8 hours). Values derived by CICSPlex SM during the monitor interval are prefixed with the letters MI
in relevant views.