Four of the 25 are not analyses
TS Cleaner and TS LPAR Anonymizer prepare your files. TS Import Small Dcollect and TS Import Big Dcollect load DCOLLECT data into a study. They have their own group below.
zPulse · Tools
The zPulse tools: 25 tools for z/OS storage data
Each tool opens a file or a folder and gives you charts and tables on one subject: channels, cache, mounts, MSU, space. Most come from the TS ControlCenter. This page lists all 25.
Read this before you pick a tool
Nine tools need files from a study or from the former product
They read AddInfo files, CSV files or a tape workbook written by a scheduled study (or by EADM, EATM or EAMC). Each card says which file. A scheduled disk study writes the AddInfo folder in its report folder.
Tools keep nothing
A tool holds no state and uses no database: the data you load does not survive a restart of the server.
How to read a card. The small line above the title says where the tool comes from. The tags give its category in the application (Disk, Tape or CPU) and what it reads: TXT is an RMF or CMF report, CSV and XLSX are files written by a study, Folder is a folder of files.
15 tools
Disk
Channels, cache, LCUs, volumes and datasets.
From TSChannelFICONAnalyzer (ControlCenter)
TS Channel FICON Analyzer
Channel utilisation, read and write MB/s, and FICON and zHPF operations per second, in 8 modes, for all LPARs or one.
From TS.SSIDAnalyzer (ControlCenter)
TS SSID Analyser
Cache read and write hit rates and the random and sequential split, by SSID and overall, in 7 modes including statistics.
From TS.AddInfo Reader (ControlCenter)
TS AddInfo
Opens a whole AddInfo folder at once in 7 views: Volume Summary, Front-End/Back-End Summary, I/O Summary, I/O Detail, Worst Volume Daily, LPAR Repartition and Leaderboard.
From TS.OpenExchange (ControlCenter)
TS Open Exchange
LCU activity and FICON and zHPF channel activity, with open exchange, in LCU Activity, Channel Activity and Error Log tabs.
From TS.LcuSsidAssociation (ControlCenter)
TS LCU SSID Association
Associates LCUs with SSIDs and charts the I/O activity by LCU and by SSID.
From TS.AsyncCache (ControlCenter)
TS Async Cache
Asynchronous cache pressure by SSID over time, as a number of tracks and a size in GB.
From TS.VolumeDataSharing (ControlCenter)
TS Volume DataSharing
A consolidated list of the online volumes (volser, type, cylinders) across one or several reports, with counts by type and capacity.
Not in the ControlCenter catalogue
TS DB2 List PreFetch zHPF
Read cache misses and tracks (bars) and bytes per HAAR or DAR request (lines), by SSID over time.
From TS IO Interrupts % TPI (ControlCenter)
TS IO Interrupts % TPI
I/O interrupt rate per CP and the share served as TPI, for all CPs or one, with zoom. The data comes from the CPU report; the application files the tool under Disk.
From TS CFW Utilization (ControlCenter)
TS CFW Utilization
Cache Fast Write read and write counters over time, with SSID and VOLSER trees for CFW disabled, enabled without values and enabled with values.
Not in the ControlCenter catalogue
TS BigFile Accum
A fast view of a very large DASD report: I/O stacked by LPAR, Resp, Conn, Disc, Iosq and Pend components, a raw grid, TP and batch statistics and CSV export.
From TS.FiconMonitoring (ControlCenter)
TS Ficon Monitoring
Channel performance in 6 views: usage per channel and per LPAR, disk read and write, tape read and write, and total read and total write per LPAR, with a channel filter.
From TS Big Data Analyze (ControlCenter)
TS BigData Analyze
DASD performance threshold alerts by LPAR, by period and by day: alert count by day, LPAR analysis and periods in alert count.
From TS.Analyze426 (ControlCenter), CMF only
TS Analyze Dataset
I/O by dataset, job or volume, over 24 hours or as the sum of 15-minute intervals, with detail per volume, worst-dataset charts and CSV export.
From TS.Dcollect (ControlCenter)
TS Dcollect Analyzer
Allocated and free space for all LPARs, per LPAR and for one LPAR, the 50 volumes with the highest variability, and fragmentation index by storage group and by volume, in 6 tabs.
5 tools
Tape
TS7700 statistics, virtual tape activity and tape capacity.
From TS.VehstatsReports (ControlCenter)
VEHSTATS Report
TS7700 statistics in 10 tabs: Analyze Settings, Read Write, Read Write Compare, AVG CPU Util, Mounts, Cache Total, Cluster Overview, Cache Throttling, Physical Mounts and Virtual Drives.
From TS.VirtualTapeIoActivity (ControlCenter)
Virtual Tape I/O Performance
Virtual tape I/O stacked by LPAR, with the Resp, Disc, Iosq, Pend and Conn components.
From TS.TapeMountAnalyzer (ControlCenter)
Tape Mounts VTS
Virtual tape mounts per LPAR over time, with a device type filter.
Not in the ControlCenter catalogue
Tape Management Xlsx
Active and scratch volumes, file counts and cartridge capacity over time, with date and LPAR filters.
From TS.TapeAddinfo V2 (ControlCenter)
TS AddInfo EATM
Tape I/O and response time components by LPAR: daily summary, 15-minute detail and a box plot, with TP and batch and weekday filters.
1 tool
CPU
MSU by CPC.
From TS.AddInfo.EAMC (ControlCenter)
TS AddInfo EAMC
MSU used, weights and defined capacity per CPC over time, in 5 tabs including MIPS.
4 tools
Utilities and imports
Four tools that prepare or load data. The application lists them under Disk.
From TS Cleaner (ControlCenter)
TS Cleaner
Cleans a CMF or RMF report: keeps the DASD or TAPE pages, rounds times to the half hour, limits to a time range, keeps active devices and splits by LPAR or by day.
From TS.LparAnonymizer (ControlCenter), narrower
TS LPAR Anonymizer
Replaces the LPAR names in a folder of CMF or RMF reports with aliases of the same width, the same in every file, and returns a zip. Volsers, dataset and job names, storage groups and company names are not replaced.
Not in the ControlCenter catalogue
TS Import Small Dcollect
Opens the study dialog to import a small DCOLLECT extract and get the 6 DCOLLECT screens.
Not in the ControlCenter catalogue
TS Import Big Dcollect
Imports a large DCOLLECT listing at dataset level and lets you browse it by VOLSER.
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