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GiAPA NEWS
Feb. 2010: Customers in various
countries experienced loops in IBM APIs QDMLOPNF or
QVWRCSTK, called during GiAPA performance data
collection. IBM has issued PTFs SI38025 and SI38033 for
V6R1, and SI38390 for V5R4 of the operating system.
Oct. 2009: Loop in IBM API QDMLOPNF in job
GIAPAHOTSP (data collection) has been experienced.
IBM has issued PTFs
SI36237 for V06R01 and SI36748 for V05R04
of the operating system.
HOW
TO UPGRADE from GiAPA VO2M01x to V02M03x
1. From top of this page download the following two
files:
° GiAPA User Manual (Password
required)
° Upgrade V02M01
→ V02M02 (Password required, use
same password as for updates)
2. Unzip the downloaded file ( = giapaupg.zip )
3. Install GiAPA V02M02 from save file GIAPAUPD as
described in the back of the GiAPA User Manual
in section "Update GiAPA to new modification level" (database
conversions not needed).
4. Install IceBreak from IceBreakSetup0262.exe as
described in the back of the GiAPA User Manual
in section "Installation of IceBreak" ( = Subsection 2 under
the header "New Installation")
IMPORTANT: Call program GIAPAPTF
after installing version update!
V02M03 released 18 June 2010
Allows batch scheduling of
expansion and analysis, and of
user defined graphics
Allows various levels of
limitation of expansion, e.g.
graphics input data only
Allows graphics data for
several LPARS to be consolidated
on one chart
Allows definition of
selections for user graphics to
be flexible relative to today's
date
(+ a large number of smaller
enhancement, new messages, etc.)
V02M02K released 04 March
2010
Support for expanding GiAPA
version 1 data removed.
File sequence check (menu
option 54) allows specification
of member name.
Watch job (menu option 12)
and Trace job (option 41)
error messages improved.
Error CPF5035 during
expansion (decimal overflow on
Perm.Writes) solved.
Enhanced error messages for
user defined graphics.
Error in graphics scaling and
text fixed (Observe: Requires
call of pgm GIAPAPTF)
V02M02J released 28 Jan 2010
GiAPA Menu option 21, selection
3=Histogram was replaced with a
large number of new graphics.
GiAPA Menu option 24 removed -
function was replaced by user
graphics within option 26.
Open file data for Other I/Os
and for Writes will contain
999.999.999 if value exceeds
999.999.999.
ColdSpot data will only be
collected once for each ColdSpot
found (repeats gave no new
data).
Special value in PHYIOLIMIT
keyword for command GIAPA110 may
prevent collection of call stack
and/or open file information.
V02M02I released 12 Dec 2009
Record selection with *USRPGM
added to Job Performance Summary
(Menu option 15).
Validation of CPU used per job
changed: Value must not exceed
total CPU used in that interval.
V02M02H released 23 Nov. 2009
Error correction: Validation of
performance data values might be
using incorrect user parameter.
V02M02G released 20 Nov. 2009
CPU statistics (GiAPA Menu
option 16, selection 4)
rewritten to produce new
PC-based color graphics.
New '+' after start time on job
summary indicates that job
continues running into following
day.
Number of threads for group
totals (*BATCH, *INTER, etc) is
changed to 1.
Job interval showing CPU usage
exceeding total for interval
will now be replaced by 0.
Total per job added to file
analysis report (Menu option 22,
selection 2).
Formula for estimating job
resource usage after last
performance collection interval
has been improved.
Many harmless
severity level 40 messages
removed from expansion job log.
Also user names may now be
specified in GiAPA Menu option
75 (HotSpot exceptions).
For GiAPA sales channels only:
Expansion can run in protected
mode (intended for product
demo).
Error corrections:
Jobs in wait state terminated on
a later date could cause
abnormal termination of
expansion run.
I/O total per job/file >
9,999,999,999 caused abnormal
termination - will be shown as
9,999,999,999.
V02M02F released 12 Oct. 2009
Error correction: GiAPA Menu
option 52 switched reporting of
index types *MAX4GB and *MAX1TB.
Percentage calculation added to
"Permanent writes" for T=Total
reports on Menu option 16.
V02M02E released 02 Oct. 2009
GiAPA Menu option 51 - 52 (Data
base file check) rewritten
completely:
Reports are more flexible,
several selection parameters
added.
Last usage date now also
covers any index usage by the
SQL / Query optimizer.
Run priority for HotSpot data
collection job end modified to
25.
Error correction: 2nd line on
user/job summary was missing if
output to print.
Program text added to Q*
programs on menu option 18
selection 5 Active Program
Statistics
Error correction: Group jobs
could incorrectly trigger
ColdSpots repeatedly.
V02M02D released 02 Sep. 2009
Major update of GiAPA Menu
options 41 - 42 - 43 to accept
new layout in IBM's Trace Job *OUTFILE,
reports enhanced to handle
multi-threaded jobs.
Graphics data file included in
import/export (GiAPA Menu option
72 - 73).
V02M02C released 04 July 2009
Default chart type for
multi-select graphics changed.
Error correction: Date format
received from job accounting was
incorrect if QDATFMT <> *YMD.
V02M02B released 01 June 2009
Files containing input for automatically generated graphics
will now be created in the specified data library.
V02M02A released 14 May 2009
GiAPA introduces Graphics: New options 26 - 27 -
28 in the GiAPA Menu allows creation of a large number of
graphical reports. Please see the description and many examples
in the updated GiAPA User Manual.
The graphics runs directly on the iServer, but shows of
course the results on your PC browser without any software
being installed on the PC!
GiAPA will now automatically receive CPU-usage in milliseconds
(and some I/O-statistics) from Job Accounting, if Job Accounting
is active. This gives a much more exact information for
jobs running a very short time.
Command Line can be called from most GiAPA screens through
using F2.
GiAPA now also collects information on disk usage - the
ASP-% is saved every 15 seconds.
Max number of open files supported by HotSpot analysis increases
from 2.500 to 5.000.
Error correction: Menu option 53 "List Index Generations"
would abend if no index creations were found.
GiAPA menu options 61-62-63 were removed, since they as
off V2 are covered more conveniently by option 53.
V02M01K released 11 November 2008
Error corrected: Number of physical I/Os per Job-Id would
sometimes only contain total synchronous I/Os, which would
result in incorrect total displayed on Job Summary Reports
(Menu option 15).
V02M01A released 26 June 2008
A new version with lots of new features, amongst others call
stack analysis on thread level meaning that e.g. JAVA
now can be analyzed.
A newsletter highlighting all the many new features is
sent to all GiAPA customers.
IMPORTANT: When upgrading from
GiAPA Version 1 you will need to follow the special upgrade
instructions being forwarded to all GiAPA Customers. You
will also need a new software security code.
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