Chapter 6. Running the Reporter

This chapter describes how to run the Reporter that runs as a batch job to produce a report of the affinities found by the Detector. The commands reported on are those listed in ªCommands detected by the Transaction Affinities Utilityº on page 11. For information about interpreting the report output by the Reporter, see ªUsing the affinity reportº on page 47.

You can run the Reporter to produce a report of the affinities found in your CICS region and de®nitions for the basic affinity transaction groups that correspond to the report. The de®nitions for the basic affinity transaction groups are suitable for input to the Builder.

This chapter contains the following information:

vªRequesting a report from the Reporterº

vªOutput from the Reporterº on page 42

vªUsing the affinity reportº on page 47

vªCompressing affinity dataº on page 49

vªUsing the IBM Cross System Productº on page 50

Requesting a report from the Reporter

You can request a report from the Reporter by editing and running the job, CAUJCLRP. Before running the CAUJCLRP job, change the following as appropriate:

vThe JOB accounting parameters

vThe PARM parameter of the EXEC statement For example:

REPORT EXEC PGM=CAUREP,PARM=©WORSEN=YES©

[WORSEN={YESNO}]

Specify whether the Reporter is to worsen transaction affinity relations for those affinities where the Detector has not detected at least 10 occurrences. For more information about worsened relations, see ªWorsening of transaction affinities relationsº on page 14.

vThe STEPLIB DD statement

Specify the name of the Transaction Affinities Utility load library where you have installed the Reporter program, CAUREP.

vThe CAUAFF1, CAUAFF2, and CAUAFF3 DD statements

Specify the names of your affinity data VSAM ®les for this CICS region.

Note: Each of the CAUAFF1, CAUAFF2, and CAUAFF3 ®les has a header record specifying the applid of the CICS region that created the record. The Reporter checks these applids against the applid recorded in the CAUCNTL ®le, and proceeds only if all four applids are the same.

vThe CAUCNTL DD statements

Specify the name of your Transaction Affinities Utility control VSAM ®le for this CICS region.

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