- Using the RMF product today, you can perform two tasks, historical or long-term reporting and on-line, short-term or monitoring. From a functional perspective the RMF product consists of a data gathering part and mainly two reporting components, which are associated to the performance management tasks.
- The data gatherer collect long-term or historical data through the Monitor I component and short-term data through the Monitor III component. The long-term data is stored in SMF records and the short-term data in Monitor III VSAM records. When you run a sysplex environment, you can access all long-term and all short-term data with the reporter functions through the RMF Sysplex Data Server. This component allows you to control a complete sysplex environment from a single point in that sysplex.
- The traditional historical reporting function is the RMF Postprocessor. The RMF Postprocessor runs as a batch job on an OS/390 system and processes the RMF SMF records. The output created by the Postprocessor are human readable RMF reports or RMF Overview records which can be used as input to further data reduction and presentation programs. The RMF Postprocessor has been enhanced with the RMF Spreadsheet Reporter. This function runs on a workstation and communicates with the Postprocessor via TCP/IP and FTP. The Spreadsheet Reporter exploits the capability of existing spreadsheet applications like Lotus 1-2-3 or Excel to present and analyze historical RMF data.
- The main RMF on-line reporting function is RMF Monitor III. RMF Monitor III runs as an ISPF application on OS/390 and provides tabular and graphical reports to monitor and supervise an OS/390 sysplex environment. PM of OS/390 is an extension of Monitor III on a workstation and it is further more a powerful
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