Note: The Common Storage Area Analyzer (CSA Analyzer), supplied with Tivoli OMEGAMON XE products, must be started for this workspace to display data.
This workspace, accessed from the Navigator, displays information about four important areas of common storage: common service area (CSA), extended CSA (ECSA), system queue area (SQA), and extended SQA (ESQA). The information provided includes
The in-use percentage and amount of growth are also illustrated as bar charts. CSA and SQA use is typically stable, growing only when a subsystem, for example, DB2, is started, at IPL time, or when many new users log on. Therefore, you can use growth in common storage to spot potential problems as well as trends in CSA use.
This workspace can record history.
Related topics: Organization of system-level predefined workspaces, Attribute groups used by the system-level predefined workspaces