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This screen provides information useful in measuring the transaction throughput efficiency of the DBEnvironment.

[load]

To invoke the Load screen, use the l command from the Load subsystem or the /loa command from other subsystems.

When you issue the SET DBENVIRONMENT command, the counters on this screen are set to zero. See the section "Display Conventions" on the next page for a description of the CUR, AVG, and MAX headings.

Field Definitions

REFRESH

The screen refresh rate, in seconds.

SESSIONS

The number of DBEnvironment sessions.

MAX XACT

The maximum number of transactions. The maximum number that may be active at one time appears at the far right of the scale. The first three numbers on the scale are ¼, ½, and ¾ of the maximum.

ACTIVE XACT

The number of transactions that have started but have not terminated (that is, a BEGIN WORK statement has completed, but a COMMIT WORK statement has not yet begun).

IMPEDE XACT

The number of active transactions blocked because they are waiting for a lock owned by another session. Compare the IMPEDE XACT value with the ACTIVE XACT and SESSIONS values to determine the amount of lock contention.

THROTTLE WT

The number of sessions that are waiting for their BEGIN WORK statements to complete. These sessions are in the throttle wait queue.

per sec

The scale used to identify the length of the inverse video bars and the data in the CUR, AVG, and MAX columns. In the above example, the MAX frequency of LOCK REQSTS is 40 per 1.0 second.

BEGIN WORK

The number of BEGIN WORK commands being processed. This number includes both explicit BEGIN WORK commands that sessions issue and BEGIN WORK commands that ALLBASE/SQL generates.

COMMIT WORK

The number of COMMIT WORK commands being processed.

ROLLBK WORK

The number of ROLLBACK WORK commands being processed. This number includes both the ROLLBACK WORK commands the session issues and the ROLLBACK WORK commands ALLBASE/SQL issues against the session to resolve deadlocks.

DEADLOCKS

The number of deadlocks being encountered.

LOCK REQTS

The number of lock requests being processed.

LOCK WAITS

The number of lock requests postponed because another session held an incompatible lock.

LOCK WAIT %

The percentage of lock requests postponed because another session held an incompatible lock.

Display Conventions

Characters displayed in the horizontal bars have special meanings, as explained in the following table:

Table 8-2 Legend

SymbolCorresponding NumberDescription
!CURRepresents activity that has occurred during the most recent refresh interval.
*AVGDesignates the average amount of activity that has occurred since SQLMON has been attached to the DBEnvironment.
$AVG and CURIndicates that the average value is the same as the value of the most recent refresh interval.
{{Full bright inverse video}}MAXDesignates the maximum amount of activity that has occurred since SQLMON has been attached to the DBEnvironment.

 

Related SET Commands

Use the SET REFRESH command to modify the refresh rate of the screen.