Resource measurement facility in a multiple operating system complex

摘要

A reporter facility for reporting data from a sysplex with a plurality of operating system images. The reporter facility comprises one or more data sets in the operating system images containing the reportable data. A first data server is provided in a first one of the operating system images and one or more second data servers are provided in the operating system images with the data sets containing reportable data. The second data servers on receipt of a request issued by the first data server collect the reportable data from the data sets and pass it through the connections to the first data server, which then passes it to the reporter facility. In one embodiment of the invention the data sets include data relating to the use and load of resources within the sysplex.