Batch Analyser

Identify where your system resources are going

Introduction

The SB/Batch Analyser for the IBM AS/400 is designed to give you a greater understanding of the batch work processing on your system.

Although most computer systems these days provide on-line access to the users, the majority still have a large batch element. Often batch work can dominate a system - the end-of-day processing is overruns into the on-line day or the day-time batch does not complete before end-of-day processing is due to start.

Product Overview

Analysing what is happening on your system and what resources jobs are consuming is no easy task. The SB/Batch Analyser provides detailed analysis of the batch work run on your system. You will be able to see at a glance what batch jobs have run, what resources they have used and what other batch jobs they were competing against.

It is easy to use and, once installed, performance information is collected automatically.

The SB/Batch Analyser will capture valuable performance related information about your batch work without the need to run the resource hungry IBM Performance Tools. A database is built up of all batch work run to enable you to analyse trends for individual or groups of jobs.

A pictorial view of all batch jobs running on the system can be produced that enables you to see which jobs were competing against each other. Analysis of your batch will quickly enable you to see where tuning changes to individual jobs will benefit your critical path work and thus reduce the duration of batch processing for these tasks.

Benefits

• Cost effective.
• Full analysis of all batch jobs.
• Comprehensive reporting facilities.
• Enables program optimisation.
• No other software required - the Batch Analyser is completely self contained.
• Minimal system overhead - The Batch Analyser makes use of existing information available on your system during normal running and does not require any heavy system monitors. On a small system (150) the overhead is likely to be less than 1%, on larger system even less.
• Industry standard - It conforms to SAA standards for screen designs, so training requirements are minimal.
• Easy integration - Fully command driven, so that it can be integrated into your existing menus or use the menu system we provide that contains comprehensive on-line help text.
  

Features

• On-line history available of all batch jobs - Use the existing reports or use the database to produce your own reports.
• On-line help text - Help is available to make using and learning the software easier.
• Command driven - Command driven to give you the flexibility to integrate the software into your existing operations procedures.
  

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Our license codes are machine specific, to obtain your 30 day free trial license code, please complete the Contact Form and include your iSeries Serial Number, Model Number, and Processor Type in the comments section.

Note:System value QALWOBJRST needs to be set to *ALL when restoring to your system.

Cumulative PTF Upgrade

The following Cumulative PTF patches have been released to enable you to upgrade your version of SB/Batch Analyser to the latest release.

To display the current release press <F22> on any SB system display or for the SB/Batch Analyser (B):

• dspdtaara starbase/sbib
  position 51-56 shows the Version, Release & Mod in vvrrmm format. The minimum release 'v2r1.0' is '020100' so any higher number is valid.

and for the SB/Base System (0):

• dspdtaara starbase/sbi0
  position 51-56 shows the Version, Release & Mod in vvrrmm format. The minimum release 'v1r1.0' is '010100' so any higher number is valid.

Note: System value QALWOBJRST must be set to *ALL when restoring to your system.

If you are an existing customer running a release older than the minimum level required, please contact StarBase for further details on upgrading.