Save commands for latre use

[Fernando Soriano]

Hello Colleagues.

I'd like your advise about the following:

Is there some way to save a command with several options for a later use?  or Do I need to do a dashboard for this?

Thanks in advanced
Fernando

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IT Mainframe Specialist
IBM de Chile
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[Hennie Hermans]

Hi Fernando,

What command do you want to save. If you want to use the saved command for a linger time, you could for instance make use of a synonym.. 
If you have the original command of CA Sysview and you issue the command profile, you have the option to add synonyms.
If you add a new synonym and then customize this synonym via the miscellaneous option, then you can use this synonym as 'saved' command with the specific options..
As example, if you do a LISTJ and create a synonym called FRLIST with under the miscellaneous option at the Default parameters your job prefix.. 
When you now enter the FRLIST command, you get the LISTJ display with your jobs only.. It uses the first parameter specified as Jobname selection.. 

If this is not what you are looking for, let me know and we can find another solution..

Best regards

Hennie Hermans
CA Technologies, A Broadcom Company

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Principal Support Engineer
CA Technologies, A Broadcom Company
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[Todd J. Gagle]

Fernando,

I am assuming that you would like to have a way to save a command that contains multiple parameters for later use.
An example might be a command to display the top 10 CPU address spaces

ACTIVITY ; SORT CPU% D LINELIMIT 10 ; RIGHT CPU%

The example above is a lot to type over and over.
Two ideas to make this easier.

1. Save the command string as a SYSVIEW QLIST (quick list)

QLIST Command

The quick list command allows a user to define commonly
used command strings or series of commands. The user
can recall or display the quick list entries for easy
selection. Some example uses of this function include:

- SELECT statements
- SORT statements
- SELECT and SORT statements

The QLIST command can be assigned to a PF-Key. If the
actions of the quick list are primarily being used to
modify the results of an active command using SORT and
SELECT statements, it is suggested that a PF-Key be
assigned the command string "QLIST ORIGIN".

The QLIST definition would be saved in the parmlib member QLIST.
You can update the QLIST member in the SITE or USER SYSVIEW parmlib.

Example QLIST Definition:

ACTIVITY Top10Cpu * Top 10 CPU Address Spaces
sort cpu% d linelimit 10 ; +
right cpu%

To execute the above, you would then type: QLIST TOP10CPU from the ACTIVITY display.

2. Define a user command.
User commands are defined in the parmlib member USERCMDS
User command can be up to 32 characters in length.
In this example, we will create a user command named:  TOP10CPU
The TOP10CPU command can be issued from anywhere in SYSVIEW.

Definition:

DEFINE TOP10CPU 
   MINLEN *
   DESC ' Top 10 CPU Address Spaces'
   CMDString   ACTIVITY +
   ; sort cpu% d linelimit 10  +
   ; right cpu%



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Todd J. Gagle
Architect of Software Engineering, Team SYSVIEW
Broadcom
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[Fernando Soriano]

Hello Todd

I've choose your second option because I need that command  can be issued from anywhere and any users in SYSVIEW, but when I executed the command following your example it showed not data.
Please your help again.
Many thanks!
Fernando

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IT Mainframe Specialist
IBM de Chile
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[Fernando Soriano]

Todd,

Enclosed you can find a file with: usercmds member and display from SYSVIEW when I executed the command "activity top10cpu".

Plase your help.
Many thanks!
Fernando

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IT Mainframe Specialist
IBM de Chile
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UserCommand.docx   509 KB 1 version

[Douglas Miller]

Fernando,
You defined a user command named TOP10CPU.  To execute that user command enter TOP10CPU.

You entered ACTIVITY command, and passed it a parameter of TOP10CPU which was taken as a jobname.

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Regards,
Doug Miller
Software Engineer
Broadcom
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[Fernando Soriano]

Hello Doug,

I tried entered just the command TOP10CPU then I got the following output:

Regards,
Fernando



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IT Mainframe Specialist
IBM de Chile
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[Douglas Miller]

Enter USERCMD TOP10CPU

Apparently your profile contains setting IMPLICITUCMD NO, which means you must prefix your user commands with the USERCMD command.  If you do SET IMPLICITUCMD YES then you would probably be able to just enter TOP10CPU.  You can find doc on this profile option in HELP SET.

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Regards,
Doug Miller
Software Engineer
Broadcom
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[Fernando Soriano]

Doug,
 Yes , I have read this information also for my profile these parameters indicated on this Doc are setted in YES.

Regards
Fernando

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IT Mainframe Specialist
IBM de Chile
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[Douglas Miller]

Then it must not be finding your newly defined USERCMD - that parmlib member may be in cache.
Enter LIBCACHE;F USERCMDS then use RELoad line command to refresh it.  Then logoff/on and try it again.

If additional assistance is needed it may be best to open a support case.

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Regards,
Doug Miller
Software Engineer
Broadcom
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[Fernando Soriano]

Hello Doug. Great!!
Your recommendation worked for me, now I can see the right output when I issued my user command.
Many thanks for all colleagues for your valuable support.
Best regards
Fernando

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IT Mainframe Specialist
IBM de Chile
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