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IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2
Storing the historical data stored on an IBM i system
User data is stored in the IFS directory set for the configuration variable CTIRA_HIST_DIR. The default value for this variable is/qibm/userdata/ibm/itm/hist. For each table, there are two files stored on the IBM i system that are associated with historical data collection.
For example, if you are collecting data for the system status attributes, these two files are:
- KA4SYSTS: This is the short-term data that is displayed as output by the IBM i agent.
- KA4SYSTS.hdr: This is the metafile. The metafile contains a single row of column names.
The contents of both files can be displayed using WRKLNK /qibm/userdata/ibm/itm.hist command.
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Convert history files to delimited flat files on an IBM i system