Logging FOCUS Usage: FOCLOG

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FOCLOG is a tool for recording and analyzing the use of FOCUS for your entire site. It comes packaged with a set of standard analytical reports that allow you to interrogate FOCUS usage—identify usage spikes and redundancies, detect large report requests, analyze time-of-day usage trends, and monitor ad hoc versus scheduled requests for each user. It even allows you to analyze the environmental conditions of the query such as use of joins, cross references, combines, MSO or SU. In addition, it collects and reports on statistics such as the number of data rows extracted and number of lines on the report output.

FOCLOG is invisible and non-intrusive to your production applications, whether batch or online. Rolled up and sorted in creative ways, the captured data provides the insight a site coordinator or manager needs to gain a clear picture of FOCUS usage and to target areas that could require adjustment, consolidation, or expansion.


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