SOS Screen Selection Menu

To access the Screen Selection Menu screen from any SOS display screen:

Type S at the SOS Enter command: prompt.

OR

Press the SCREEN MENU function key at the bottom of the screen (F7).

Figure 5.1 SOS Screen Selection Menu

To return to the SOS program from the Screen Selection Menu screen, press Enter.

NOTE If the SOS Turbo Image screens are not active (options 16) Make Turbo Image performance data available and 17 Make Turbo Image performance data available from the SOS/3000 Main Option Menu), then the TurboIMAGE screen options in the Screen Selection Menu will be marked with an asterisk (*).

Screen Selection Commands

To view one of the screens listed in the Screen Selection Menu, type the screen’s corresponding command key at the Enter Screen Code: command prompt. Each screen is described briefly in Table 5.1. More detailed explanations are presented later.

NOTE The "Enter Screen Code:" is available from two places within SOS: 1 - at the bottom of screen selection menu 2 - after entering J at the "Enter command:" prompt which is on most SOS screens

Table 5.1 SOS Screen Selection Menu command keys

Key	Usage	Comment	Reference
O	SOS Options	The SOS Main Options screen displays a variety of options that control which performance indicators are collected and displayed on the Global Summary Screen.	17
G	Global Summary	Displays a basic, overall picture of your system’s performance.	55
Z	Pulse Points	Lists the key indicators of performance that appear on the Global Summary screen and categorizes their current levels of performance as acceptable, questionable, or unacceptable.	85
A	Resource Trend	The five Resource Trend screens display performance data for the current SOS/3000 session: CPU Trends Main Memory Trends Disc I/O Utilization Trends Response and Transaction Trends Mode Switch Trends	89
R	Response Time Detail	Displays prompt response time, first response time, and total transactions for the collection interval.	99
C	CPU Detail	Reports the general state of the CPU.	103
D	Disc I/O Detail	Provides the utilization percentage and I/O rate for each disc device configured on the system.	107
M	Memory Detail	Shows rates and total counts for page faults, overlay candidates, posts, and prefetches.	113
P	Process Detail	Provides an in-depth view of a specific process’ performance during the current interval.	119
W	Workload Detail	Reports detailed information for a specific workload group.	135
S	Global Process Stops	Provides information that shows why system, session and job processes are giving up use of CPU.	147
I	TurboImage Database Main	The TurboIMAGE Database Main Screen summarizes activity of all processes against all databases. It also lists activity by database of all processes.	155
B	TurboImage Database Detail	The TurboIMAGE Database Detail Screen summarizes activity of all processes against a single database. It also lists activity by process against that database.	163
N	TurboImage Process Detail	The TurboIMAGE Process Detail Screen summarizes activity of a single process against all databases. It also lists activity by database and dataset of that process.	169
J	System Configuration	The System Configuration Screen shows significant system configuration parameters.	175
F	File Users	The File Users Screen displays the users of the file entered.	181
U	File Space Utilization	The File Space Utilization Screen displays information about disc space usage, transient space and disc space fragmentation	185
L	Log Trends Program (SOSLOGX)	The Log Trends Program (SOSLOGX) displays the historical data counterpart to SOS.	191
V	File Report Program	Starts the File Report Program.
Enter	Return to previous screen	Self explanatory.
E or X	Exit	This terminates SOS/3000 and returns you to the MPE/iX prompt.
!	Execute Shell Commands	This takes you to an MPE/iX.
:	Execute Shell Commands	This takes you to an MPE/iX.