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Workspace IBM i
Categories PowerHA
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 6, 2016

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Improve API QYASRTVINF return field Copy Progress

Improve API QYASRTVINF to provide better information in the "Copy Progess" field of format YASH0400 OR provide detailed explanation about how to use a 1-byte character field to represent percentages. The current documentation does not explain how to use this field and describing a percentage field as a 1-byte character field is very unusual. This needs better explanation or changing the field to be a binary(4) type field or at least change to Char(8) as are the other fields next to it on the output spec (which is another discussion, why are numeric fields return as character?)


Use Case:

This API is used to return critical information about existing disk pools for monitoring and alerting purposes. Knowing the current percentage of progress would be a very helpful bit of information.


Idea priority Low
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 10, 2019

    The PowerHA team believes that the request described has been solved and updated documentation will be available in future updates to the Knowledge Center. Supplemental information is provided below.

    The updated fields are as follows:
    Copy progress. The percent of synchronization complete between source and target. This character field contains the copy progress represented as one byte of binary data. A binary value of 0x01 would represent a copy progress of 1%, and a binary value of 0x64 represents a copy progress of 100% (hexadecimal 64 equivalent to decimal 100).

    Tracking space allocated. Indicates the number of bytes of auxiliary storage that are reserved for tracking changes in a geographic mirroring environment. The maximum assignable tracking space is one percent of the total space within an independent ASP. The allocated tracking space is used to track information about the changed data, not the changed data itself. A large amount of data can be tracked without requiring a large amount of tracking space. This 8 byte character field should be interpreted as an unsigned 8-byte binary field.

    Tracking space used. Indicates the number of bytes of auxiliary storage that is currently being used to track changes in a geographic mirroring environment. This 8 byte character field should be interpreted as an unsigned 8-byte binary field.

    In addition to the API, the following CL commands may be used for retrieving the same information:
    For ASP Sessions by using the RTVASPSSN command with the ASPCPY parameter
    For SVC Sessions by using the RTVSVCSSN command with the ASPCPY parameter
    For CSM Sessions by using the RTVCSMSSN command with the ASPSSNSTS parameter

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jan 24, 2017

    IBM has received the requirement and is evaluating the possibility of enhancing the documentation for the QYASRTVINF API. IBM will provide a response after evaluation is complete.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 7, 2016

    Creating a new RFE based on Community RFE #94077 in product IBM i.

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