Tutorials

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Explore our quick, practical tutorials that guide you through installation, setup, and performance analysis.

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01) Basic concepts

Basic concepts, installation, menu and commands (14 minutes) - - - GiAPA Menu option 99

02) Data collection

Starting and ending data collection (18 minutes)
GiAPA Menu options 11, 13

03) Expansion & Analysis

Data expansion & analysis: Creating the GiAPA data base (24 min.) - - - GiAPA Menu option 14

04) Job Summary

Job Summary exception report, and job interval details (24 minutes) - - - GiAPA Menu option 15

05) File Accesses

Analyzing file access (18 minutes)
GiAPA Menu options 15 + F6-F7-F8

06) Call Stack Analysis

Call stack analysis (18 minutes)
GiAPA Menu option 15 + F9

07) Details of All Jobs

Reporting based on detailed performance data (16 minutes) - - - GiAPA Menu option 16

08) HotSpot Statistics

Global HotSpot analysis per program or file (24 minutes) - - - GiAPA Menu option 18, 19, 20, 22

09) Summary Reports

Summaries per job, user, or data collection interval (17 minutes) - - - GiAPA Menu options 17, 21, 24

10) GiAPA Graphics

How to create charts: GiAPA graphics feature (28 minutes) - - - GiAPA Menu options 26, 28

11) Data base utilities

Data base file utilities (12 minutes)
GiAPA Menu options 51 - 53

12) SQL and Query

SQL Observer and Tracking use of Query400 (13 minutes) - - - GiAPA Menu options 61 - 66

13) Housekeeping

Install. parm.s, export/import data, housekeeping (13 minutes) - GiAPA Menu options 71-76,78,81- 89

14) Optimization

Optimization tips and techniques for development (33 minutes)

15) Job Watch

ColdSpots, Job Watch function, Waits (8 minutes)
GiAPA Menu option 12

16) Front end to PEX

Front end to IBM's PEX *STATS (10 minutes)
GiAPA Menu options 31 - 33

17) Trace Job Analysis

Analysis of data from IBM's Trace Job command (10 minutes) - - - GiAPA Menu options 41 - 43