T4 & Friends

TimeLine-Driven Collaboration with “T4 & Friends”: A Time-saving Approach to OpenVMS Performance

Steve Lieman Performance Group,
OpenVMS Engineering, Nashua, NH, USA

This OpenVMS Technical Journal
article gives you the background story on TimeLine Collaboration (TLC), sketches the universal
ingredients of a timeline-driven approach to OpenVMS performance, highlights
the original and the current capabilities of the “upstream” and “downstream” Friends of T4, and details the central
role played by growing reservoirs of TimeLine Collaboration format data.

RMS Collector for T4 and Friends

Overview

This article
provides a technique of expanding T4 and Friends with additional data
collectors and with minimal impact to the core T4 procedures and utilizing
services provided by them. The example described is uses a MONITOR RMS
extension to monitor RMS file statistics.