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Status Future consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories BCP_SMF
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 26, 2019

Please provide the FLDSTATS "number of records" specified in input parms on the output Flood Statistics report

The Flood Statistics report is produced based on a "number of records" you specify, which is used to calculate statistics based on this record number, i.e. the minimum, maximum, average interval times for which this number of records was written.

The output report written to SYSPRINT deos not currently contain any indication of the specified number of records. Here are two example reports for the same SMF input data.

1) based on FLDSTATS(0100)

FLOOD STATISTICS REPORT FOR SYSB
START DATE-TIME 07/25/2019-00:00:00 END DATE-TIME 07/26/2019-00:00:01
RECORD TOTAL LOW HIGH AVERAGE STANDARD
TYPE INTERVALS INTERVAL INTERVAL INTERVAL DEVIATION
72 34 0 9,002 8,205 2,365
74 19 8,999 18,000 11,845 3,926
75 2 107,998 108,001 107,999 1
78 1 216,000 216,000 216,000 0
TOTAL 60 0 9,002 4,649 4,374

2) based on FLDSTATS(1000)
FLOOD STATISTICS REPORT FOR SYSB
START DATE-TIME 07/25/2019-00:00:00 END DATE-TIME 07/26/2019-00:00:01
RECORD TOTAL LOW HIGH AVERAGE STANDARD
TYPE INTERVALS INTERVAL INTERVAL INTERVAL DEVIATION
72 3 80,999 81,000 81,000 0
74 1 144,001 144,001 144,001 0
TOTAL 6 45,000 53,997 46,500 3,194

It would be very useful to have the number of records included in the output report. This could be done as part of the title or as a separate report line

Idea priority Medium