With this monitoring program, a user can only include ISAM pools in the monitoring process if the SM2 primary administrator has permitted ISAM pool monitoring. This permission can be granted either to all users or to users with certain IDs. In this case, the SM2 MEASUREMENT STATUS screen will have the entry ISAM in the line entitled USER MEASUREMENTS ALLOWED.
Each authorized user can include or exclude global ISAM pools and all task-local ISAM pools which have been created or are being created under his user ID.
SM2 does not check whether an ISAM pool exists when a user tries to include it; in other words an ISAM pool can be included in the monitoring process even before it has been created. If an ISAM pool which has been included does not exist during the monitoring cycle, all its monitored data will be listed with blanks. Since the total number of ISAM pools that can be monitored by SM2 for nonprivileged users is limited to 16, care must be taken not to unnecessarily include too many non-existent ISAM pools in the monitoring operations.
No values are written to the SM2 output file for ISAM pools monitored with the aid of this monitoring program.
Indirect selection of a pool by specifying a file contained in the pool is reserved for the SM2 administrator.