Conventions for specifying metric collection parameters

Mainframe Analytics Recorder User Guide

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10.1.x
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MK-92HC226-08
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2026-01-30
The following describes the conventions for specifying metric collection parameters.

Use the following syntax when specifying parameters:

parameter-name [operand-name (operand-value...) operand-name (operand-value...) ...]

Specify parameters in columns 1 to 71. Parameters specified in column 72 and onward will be ignored.

If you specify a continuation symbol after a parameter character string, the following line is read as a continuation of that line. The table below shows the types of continuation symbols.

Table. Types of continuation symbols

Continuation symbol

Continuation method

Minus sign (-)

Excluding the continuation symbol, the specification (including space characters) in the leftmost column of the next line is read as a continuation of the line containing the continuation symbol.

Plus sign (+)

Excluding the continuation symbol, the specification (ignoring space characters) in the leftmost column of the next line is read as a continuation of the line containing the continuation symbol.

Do not specify more than 100 lines joined by continuation symbols.

Use uppercase characters to specify parameters and operands. Operand values are not case sensitive.

When specifying a space character, comma (,), colon (:), semi-colon (;), left parenthesis ((), right parenthesis ()), hyphen (-), or plus sign (+), enclose the character or symbol in single quotation marks (').

If you specify the same parameter more than once, the value specified last takes effect. However, if you specify the LDEVALL parameter more than once, all specified values take effect. If you specify this parameter as shown below, information for the following volumes will be collected: all volumes in CU11 and CU12 of the storage system whose serial number is 11111, all volumes in the storage systems whose serial numbers are 22222 and 33333, and all volumes in CU01 of the storage system whose serial number is 44444.

LDEVALL  SN(11111,22222)
LDEVALL  SN(11111) CU(11,12)
LDEVALL  SN(22222,33333)
LDEVALL  SN(44444) CU(00)
LDEVALL  SN(44444) CU(01)     

When specifying more than one operand value, you can use a comma (,) or space character as the delimiting character. Enclose comments with the symbols /* and */, as shown below.

HDA PREFIX(USER01) SN(53038)     /* Comment */
LDEVALL SN(53038) CU(01,02 03)