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Chapter 8 Performance Management Tools HP GlancePlus for MPE/iX On the Move Again by Mel Eelkema Software Technology Division HP GlancePlus is on the move again with more enhancements, while keeping the same look and feel you have grown to love. Most of the new features increase GlancePlus' ease of use and configurability. The default settings for the new features make GlancePlus look and feel the same as always. As with each previous version, its usefulness in real business situations has been guaranteed by customer prototyping in production environments. New Functionality at a Glance The following information describes the enhancements now available with HP GlancePlus for MPE/iX. Disc Screen Enhancements. The Disc Screen has been enhanced in several ways. For systems with many disc drives, we now only show discs that have some activity. To see all discs, the "A" command can be used as in any other screen. To help characterize the disc queue length, we added a column showing the average queue length for each disc since GlancePlus has been running or the last "Z" command was issued. The disc screen also now shows average disc utilization by displaying an asterick in the disc utilization line for each disc. Other Enhancements. The Job/Session screen now shows the total CPU for all processes, including processes that have already died. The ":" command now allows you to enter multiple MPE commands without returning to the GlancePlus screen. You can continue to enter MPE commands until you press RETURN without entering a command. In case you are interrupted while GlancePlus is still running, a sixty second timer will return you to GlancePlus if no MPE command has been entered. The idea of PROCKEYS=CONTINUOUS has been extended to cover the Queue Change and Use (list Users of a file) commands. When PROCKEYS are set to continuous, GlancePlus continues to prompt for more changes until you press RETURN without a new command. This feature allows you to perform more changes in a shorter amount of time.