Wasn't going to answer, but Bill P goaded me to it.
Is some monitor data worthless to be recorded? YES, LOTS OF IT for the MXG user.
Is the shelf life short? YES for much of it. (Disks doing zero I/O but online?)
Is MONWRITE writing garbage? Not all of it. To most users, much of the data is indeed
garbage or at least something less than useful.
We replaced MONWRITE in 1989 with intelligent operation that supports MXG the way MXG
users like, supports MICS like MICS users like, and saved customers significant CPU on
z/OS, disk space on both MVS (z/OS) and VM/XA (z/VM), and we can give Linux process,
application and user data to both MXG and MICS. MONWRITE is old and in the way of progress.
From our products page "http://velocitysoftware.com/product.html";
there is a link to our vendor interfaces such as MXG. We even try and support the IBM
products, but there are few users.
Alan Altmark wrote:
On Wednesday, 03/12/2008 at 01:48 EDT, barton
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Alan, look at what he's collecting. If you don't think that is
miscollecting,
you should take the class too.
Are you telling me that some monitor data is worthless to be recorded?
That is, that the shelf life is some of the data is so short that it has
no value in a disk file? Or are you telling me that MONWRITE is writing
garbage or double-writing or not writing or ...?
If you're going to accuse MONWRITE of bad behavior, then I think you
should tell me what you think it is doing that is bad. No FUD.
Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott
