Runtime Diagnostics is a point-in-time diagnostics tool that should be used when you think there is something wrong on your system and don't know what it could be or where you should start your investigation. It is invoked by F HZR,ANALYZE (starting in R13) after it has been started. Prior to R13, it was invoked using its start command.
PFA uses Runtime Diagnostics to corroborate a "too low" condition is some of PFA's checks. When PFA thinks a rate is too low, it invokes Runtime Diagnostics and if there's an event, issues the PFA exception and includes the Runtime Diagnostics events in the PFA report. This output is what you would have been seeing in the PFA_SMF_ARRIVAL_RATE check's report. There has been a lot of recent work to reduce the number of exceptions from PFA. Therefore, I would encourage you to get all the latest PFA PTFs and to stay current on those. There are some additional PTFs that should be available soon in this "too low" checking as well. More information on both Runtime Diagnostics and PFA as well as the integration between them can be found in z/OS Problem Management. Karla Arndt z/OS Predictive Failure Analysis and Runtime Diagnostics ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
