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FDRVIEWS

Turning Raw Data Into Smart Decisions

FDRViews provides a simplified user interface to query and analyze your z/OS storage system data. Its user extensible Grouping and Questions design allows for almost unlimited user customization. FDRViews will provide you with new insights into your z/OS storage environment.

WHO THE SOLUTION WILL BENEFIT
FDRViews will benefit storage administrators, managers, systems programmers and other mainframe support personnel. Its simple “Ask a Question, Get an Answer” user interface allows both the inexperienced and the highly experienced storage administrator to fully review their environment. FDRViews uses FDREPORT to gather a snapshot of the data to answer the question.

The Snapshot Collector, the Datastore, and the User Interface could all be running on different PCs or servers.

FDRVIEWS, is a cost option to FDREPORT.

The FDRVIEWS User Interface
The FDRViews GUI component provides the graphical interface to the data. The GUI will be used to make the three selections and generate reports on the data. The interface consists of three elements:
the Snapshot Selection pane, the Groupings pane and the Questions pane.

The FDRViews Snapshot Collector and Scheduler
The FDRViews Snapshot Collector shown below shows the snapshots that have been taken. You can use the Snapshot Scheduler to determine when the snapshot should be taken. For example, you can schedule the snapshot to take place twice a day at 7:00AM and at 7:00PM and then use these snapshots as input to create the daily charts on your DASD Storage. The Scheduler will also allow you to take a snapshot at any time. If an ad hoc report is needed based on the present conditions you can simply create a new snapshot by selecting the TAKE SNAPSHOT NOW button. Most snapshots will only take a few minutes.

The FDRVIEWS Output Format
Sample below shows an answer represented by a bar chart and as a pie chart.

The Grouping Pane
With one click on the Grouping Pane, you can get detailed statistics in a spreadsheet, like the report below.