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Status Future consideration
Workspace z/VM
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 29, 2018

Add the sum option to the UCLASS subcommand in Performance Toolkit

z/VSE is eligible for sub-capacity pricing. Then on it could be valuable to know how evolves the sum of the CPU load for all VSE's for which sub-pricing capacity is applied.

The FCONTROL DEFLOG subcommand of the Performance Toolkit allows defining your own 'by time' performance data logs, to be built from parts of standard performance displays and user-defined text. Moreover, the FCONTROL DEFLOG subcommand allows defining your own 'by time' performance data logs, to be built from parts of standard performance displays and user-defined text.

So, I defined a USER LOG panel to display the CPU load of all VSE's on one line of the FCX187 panel (USER LOG). I also defined a UCLASS that includes all VSE's running in the z/VM partition. But it is not possible to use the UCLASS subcommand to display the SUM of the values for all members of a Class name. The UCLASS subcommand only displays the average.

Would it be possible to add this option to the UCLASS command ?

Idea priority Low