RE: Collect Performance Data

The APIs you referred to are "performance collector APIs".
This is a relatively old interface, which actually collects the 
performance data.
Another group of APIs - "Collection Services collector APIs" - do not 
collect the data .
They manage system collection mechanism.
(In V5R3 several new commands were introduced to make this easier for 
green screen users.)

Performance data is collected to an object of type *MGTCOL.
After data is collected (or in parallel with data being collected), you 
can use CRTPFRDTA command to export collected data into a set of 
performance database files.
The files are described here:
 
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r2/ic2924/info/rzahx/rzahxperfdatafiles1.htm
you can run your own queries over these files.
These files are used by Performance Tools product to produce all kinds of 
reports.

Introduction to Collection Services can be found here:
 
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r2/ic2924/info/rzahx/rzahxcollectdatacs.htm

    Alexei





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This link seems applicable:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r2/ic2924/info/apis/perf1.htm

Looks like IBM wants you to use the APIs or iNav now.

Elvis

-----Original Message-----
Subject: RE: Collect Performance Data

Running V5R2, and command  STRPFRCOL and ENDPFRCOL do not exist.

michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:You can still collect the data with
STRPFRCOL and ENDPFRCOL.

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Collect Performance Data
> From: Jeffrey Young 
> Date: Thu, July 07, 2005 9:03 am
> To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> How do I collect performance data if the performance tools are not
installed on my system?
> 
> 
> 
> Jeff Young