Fields in the Logstreams Requests Report

The Logstreams Requests Report is produced using the EXEC CICS INQUIRE STREAMNAME and EXEC CICS EXTRACT STATISTICS STREAMNAME commands. The statistics data is mapped by the DFHLGSDS DSECT.

For more information about logstreams, see CICS logging and journaling.

Table 1. Fields in the Logstreams Requests report
Field Heading Description
Logstream Name The name of the logstream.

Source field:EXEC CICS INQUIRE STREAMNAME()

Write Requests The number of IXGWRITE requests issued to this logstream. IXGWRITE occurs, for example, when the logstream buffer is full, or when the application issues an EXEC CICS WRITE JOURNALNAME command with the WAIT option specified.

Source field: LGSWRITES

Bytes Written The number of bytes written to this logstream.

Source field: LGSBYTES

Average Bytes The average number of bytes written to this logstream per request.

Source field: (LGSBYTES / LGSWRITES)

Buffer Appends The number of occasions on which a journal record was successfully appended to the current logstream buffer.

Source field: LGSBUFAPP

Buffer Full Waits The number of times buffer full has occurred for this logstream.

Source field: LGSBUFWAIT

Force Waits The total number of force waits for this logstream.

Source field: LGSTFCWAIT

Peak Waiters The peak number of force waiters for this logstream.

Source field: LGSPKFWTRS

Retry Errors The number of occasions on which MVS™ logger retry errors occurred when a block of data was being written to the log stream.

Source field: LGSRTYERRS