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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.

Mar. 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 VO2M01 to V02M02

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)
 

     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)

V0202J 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.

V02MM02G 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.

V02M02C released 06 July 2009
Error fixed: Job accounting data might be rejected in date format in QDATFMT was not 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.