Accumulating History in ACR/Summary

In ACR/Summary, you have the option to accumulate values for the same Internal Item in a History Item. This article will cover the steps needed to set up this feature.

z/OS

1. Go to the History Item you wish to use to accumulate data or create a new one.
2. Set how far back you want to data to accumulate from in the "Relative cycle:" field area (ex: put "-005" if you want to go back 5 days from today).
3. Specify the Internal Item you want to accumulate.
4. Put Y for "Set advanced features?"
5. Press the F5 Key.

Once you hit F5, a small window will pop up. Put S next to "Cycle accumulation" and press the Enter key.

In the next window that pops up, you have 3 options. By default, 3 is what is selected. To activate cycle accumulation, hit either 1 or 2.

• If you hit 1, the History Item will accumulate the Internal Item from the relative cycle you set (in this example, the relative cycle was set for -005) through relative cycle -001, meaning that the cycle -001 will be excluded. Essentially, if you ran the job today, yesterday's values wouldn't be accumulated.
• If you hit 2, the History Item will accumulate the Internal Item from the relative cycle you set through relative cycle +000, meaning the cycle +000 will be excluded. Essentially, if you ran the job today, today's values wouldn't be accumulated.

Press the F5 key.

You now have set up accumulation of values for a History Item on z/OS.

Windows

Right-Click or Double Click your history item or the "<New>" line and add a new History Item.

1. In the window that pops up, specify the History Item Name, the History Item Description, Job Name, the Step Name of the Internal Item you wish to accumulate.
2. Set the Source Type to "Internal Item" and set the number of the Internal Item.
3. Set how far back you want to data to accumulate from in the "Relative cycle:" field area (ex: put "-005" if you want to go back 5 days from today). By default, it is set to "Do not perform cycle accumulation".
4. Under "Accumulation Option", select to retrieve from the relative cycle through -001 or +000.
   • If you set accumulation to go through relative cycle -001, the cycle -001 will be excluded. Essentially, if you ran the job today, yesterday's values wouldn't be accumulated.
   • If you set accumulate to go through relative cycle +000, the cycle +000 will be excluded. Essentially, if you ran the job today, today's values wouldn't be accumulated.
5. Hit OK.

You now have set up accumulation of values for a History Item with ACR/Workbench on Windows.