OVERVIEW

The OVERVIEW control statement can be used together with the OVW and the EXCEPT control statement to specify Overview processing.

The syntax of the statement is:

OVERVIEW(type[,type])

type specifies the output destination and can be:

REPORT: Requesting a report to be written.
RECORD: Requesting data to be written to a data set.

You can specify both types on one OVERVIEW control statement.

OVERVIEW in context with OVW

If you specify OVW control statements (see OVW), then OVERVIEW has the default value of REPORT and is required only for creating records, either as OVERVIEW(RECORD) or OVERVIEW(REPORT,RECORD).

OVERVIEW in context with EXCEPT

If you specify EXCEPT control statements (see EXCEPT), then OVERVIEW defines whether Overview reports or Overview records should be created. There is no default OVERVIEW option, and if OVERVIEW is missing, an Exception report will be created.

OVERVIEW in context with OVW and EXCEPT

It is recommended not to specify OVW and EXCEPT statements together. If you do so nevertheless, overview data is created using both types of statements, and you must ensure not to use duplicate control statement names.

There is no automatic allocation of the output data set for the Overview records. You have to define the data set explicitly in your JCL (see Defining output data sets) as

//PPOVWREC DD DSNAME=data.set.name, …

or in the Postprocessor Output Data Set panel (see Postprocessor output data sets).

The data set should have these characteristics:

DCB=(RECFM=VB,LRECL=32756,BLKSIZE=32760)

You find a description of the records in z/OS RMF Report Analysis.