JES Spool Usage Report and Alert

[Patrick Cribbs]

Our spool is going over 80 percent capacity, and I would like to create an email when it does.    I am also trying to identify some of the jobs with the largest JES Spool lines of output.   Does SYSVIEW have the capability to create an email when the spool utilization goes over 80%?   Also I have tried a few attempts at producing a report identifying some of the jobs, with largest JES Spool lines of output.   I tried to run the SYSVIEW report below but only the jobs with my TSO prefix are being selected.   The select for the job names starting with "R" does not seem to be working.   It only seems to identify the jobs currently within the queue, a better usage report would span over a period of time such as 24 hours.  Any recommendations would be appreciated.  

//GSVXBAT EXEC PGM=GSVXBAT,REGION=0M,                      
//         PARM='SSID=GSVX,LINECNT=66,SHOWINP=YES,MENUOFF' 
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*                                     
//GSVCLOG DD SYSOUT=*                                      
//SYSUDUMP DD SYSOUT=*                                     
//SYSIN    DD *                                            
COMMAND=(PRINT OPEN)                                       
COMMAND=(JOBSUM)                                           
COMMAND=(SET FORMAT FORMAT_NAME)                           
COMMAND=(SEL JOBNAME EQ = R*)                              
COMMAND=(SCROLL)                                           
COMMAND=(PRINT CLOSE)                                      
SCROLL                                                     
COMMAND=END                                                

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Patrick
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[Mark Rossi]

Hi Patrick,

since there are a number of ways to provide a solution, I suggest that you open a support ticket in order to arrive at what best fits your needs.

 

Some of what might be utilized from SYSVIEW includes thresholding, event capture, batch interface, Conditions (Java application recently GA'd), as well as GSS/IMOD, OPS/MVS and Alert Central.

 

To provide you some feedback here, there is a metric for spool utilization (MVS_JES_SpoolTrackGroups% and/or MVS_JES_SpoolTrackGroupsUsed).  And referencing the batch interface you provided, there may be prefix and/or owner values in your user profile which could be impeding your selection for jobname.  Review help for the PREFIX and OWNER commands (also linked to from JOBSUM help).

Regards.

[Douglas Miller]

Adding on to Mark's comments:

If you have the Event Capture option, you can define a threshold for MVS_JES_SpoolTrackGroups% with Limit 80 CapLevel CHANGE (or STATUS) CapEvent MVSMAIL. Then go to GROUPS command and enter email addresses to the group MVSMAIL.

Regarding the batch job, the JOBSUM command defaults to using your userid as a Jobname filter. Try changing your commands to 'JOBSUM R&VLMC' and remove the SEL JOBNAME. You also shouldn't need the PRINT OPEN and PRINT CLOSE commands.

[Douglas Miller]

Email Notifications on Exceptions or Thresholds
https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/ca-mainframe-software/performance-and-storage/ca-sysview-performance-management/17-0/scenarios-how-to-articles-videos-and-online-help-topics/online-help-topics/ca-sysview-base-product/email-notifications-on-exceptions-or-thresholds.html