JPH06214832A - Terminal work history reproducing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To reproduce the terminal work histories of all the sessions without applying burden on a worker and to quickly perform the fault analysis and performance evaluation of a system and the evaluation of user characteristic. CONSTITUTION:This device is provided with a terminal display message extraction part 7, a terminal display format conversion part 8, an output part 9 classified by every session. The terminal display message extraction part 7 reads out one piece of message information from an MT on which plural pieces of communication log information consisting of collection time, a session number, a protocol ID, and a message code, etc., are accumulated and an auxiliary memory device 4, and supplies it to the terminal display format conversion part 8 when it shows terminal display message information, and reads out the next message information when it is another one. The terminal display format conversion part 8 edits terminal display format information by acquiring the collection time and the session number from the terminal display message information, converting a message code to terminal display format data of character format, and inserting the collection time to the forefront of the terminal display format data. The output part 9 classified by every session classifies the terminal display format information by every session number, and stores it in the auxiliary memory device 4.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a terminal work history reproducing apparatus for reproducing a terminal work history of each terminal in a shared use environment consisting of a host computer and a plurality of terminals connected to the host computer. In particular, the present invention relates to a terminal work history reproducing device that reproduces the terminal work history of each terminal by analyzing communication log information transmitted between the host computer and the terminal and accumulated in the host computer.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in order to acquire the work history of each terminal, it is necessary to store the work history for each terminal, and for that purpose, each terminal is equipped with a printer or a floppy disk drive (FDD). There was a need. Then, it has been necessary for each worker to perform various settings, printer or FDD settings, etc., on each terminal. On the other hand, the communication log information transmitted between the host computer and the terminals and accumulated in the host computer is the message information transmitted between the host computer and all terminals (the information actually displayed on the terminal display). And control information that is not displayed), and is stored in a single file in chronological order without distinction between the terminal and the session, which is the unit of time from when the terminal logs in to the host computer until it logs out. It was saved. Also, the information displayed on the terminal display was not stored in the file in the actual display format. Therefore, the communication log information has been used only for an extremely limited purpose such as a trouble analysis of a communication system by a professional engineer.

[0003]

By the way, conventionally, in order to acquire the terminal work history of each terminal,
As described above, since the worker needs to make various settings for each terminal, for the purpose of acquiring information during normal terminal work,
Alternatively, when a system performance evaluation or a system user characteristic evaluation is performed, a worker acquires a terminal work history, which causes deterioration of work efficiency. Further, conventionally, in order to acquire the terminal work history of each terminal, as described above, a printer or an FDD is provided for each terminal.
Must be provided. As described above, in the past, it was rare to constantly acquire the terminal work history because of problems such as capital investment and the burden on the worker. Therefore, even when the terminal work history is urgently needed for the system failure analysis or the like, the terminal work history when the failure occurs is hardly saved, so that there is a drawback that it takes time to analyze the system failure.

Further, conventionally, the communication log information is
As described above, not only the information actually displayed on the terminal display but also a lot of control information that is not displayed on the terminal display are mixed in one file in time series without distinction between terminals and sessions. Has been saved,
Moreover, since the information displayed on the display of the terminal is not in the actual display format, it is impossible or unthinkable to acquire the terminal work history by using this communication log information. The present invention has been made under such a background, and an object thereof is to provide a terminal work history reproducing device capable of reproducing the terminal work history of all sessions without imposing any burden on the operator. To do.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION According to the present invention, a terminal work history reproduction for reproducing a terminal work history of each terminal in a shared use environment composed of a host computer and a plurality of terminals connected to the host computer. An apparatus, comprising: a terminal display message extractor, a terminal display format converter, and a session-classified output unit, wherein the terminal display message extractor is transmitted between the host computer and each terminal. To identify the session time, which is the unit of time from when each terminal logs in to the host computer and when it logs out, indicating the time when the electronic message information was collected at the host computer side. Session number, a protocol identification number indicating the type of the electronic message information, an electronic message code that is data actually transmitted between the host computer and each terminal, and so on. One electronic message information is read from the magnetic tape or auxiliary storage device provided on the host computer side, in which a plurality of communication log information is accumulated, and the protocol identification is performed to determine whether the electronic message information is terminal display electronic message information. Judging based on the number, when the one electronic message information is the terminal display electronic message information, the one electronic message information is supplied to the terminal display format conversion unit, and when the one electronic message information is not the terminal display electronic message information, , The next one electronic message information is read, the terminal display format conversion unit acquires the collection time and the session number from the terminal display electronic message information supplied from the terminal display electronic message extraction unit, and a binary format electronic message code. To terminal display format data in a character format that can be displayed on each terminal, insert the collection time at the beginning of the terminal display format data, and edit the terminal display format information. It supplies to the session-by-session classification output unit, the session-by-session classification output unit classifies the terminal display format information supplied from the terminal display format conversion unit for each session number, and stores the information in the auxiliary storage device. It has a feature.

[0006]

According to the above configuration, only the terminal display message information is extracted from the communication log information accumulated on the host computer side,
The terminal display message information is converted to terminal display format data in character format that can be displayed on each terminal, sorted by session number and stored in the auxiliary storage device, so the message information stores the terminal work history of all sessions. It can be reproduced without any burden on the operator.

[0007]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the overall configuration of a terminal work history reproduction device according to an embodiment of the present invention.
This terminal work history reproducing device includes a processing device 1 for controlling each part of the device, a display part 2 such as a CRT display, an input part 3 such as a keyboard, an auxiliary storage device 4 such as a hard disk, and a magnetic tape (MT). Input / output MT device 5 for reading data from and writing data to MT
And an output printer device 6 on which various data are printed.

In the processing device 1, the terminal display message extractor 7 reads the communication log information CLI (see FIG. 2A) from the auxiliary storage device 4 or the input / output MT device 5 for one message information, and the message information. Is the terminal display message information, and only when it is the terminal display message information, the message information is supplied to the terminal display format conversion unit 8.

The communication log information CLI will be described below. FIG. 2A shows a part of the communication log information CLI accumulated in a host computer (not shown).
In FIG. 2A, TM is a collection time at which electronic message information transmitted from the host computer to the terminal or from the terminal to the host computer is collected on the host computer side, SN is a session number for distinguishing sessions, and PID is a host. The protocol identification number (ID), which represents the type of message information transmitted between the computer and the terminal, and EC respectively represent the message code in binary format that is actually transmitted between the host computer and the terminal. Note that the communication log information CLI actually stored in the host computer includes many types of information in addition to the data shown in FIG. 2A, but in this embodiment, it is shown in FIG. Only the communication log information CLI shown is used.

Further, in the processing device 1, the terminal display format conversion unit 8 acquires the collection time TM and the session number SN from the terminal display message information supplied from the terminal display message extraction unit 7, and the binary format message code. The EC is converted into terminal display format data TDD in a character format that can be displayed on each terminal. Then, the terminal display format conversion unit 8 inserts the collection time TM at the beginning of the terminal display format data TDD, edits the terminal display format information TDI (see FIG. 2B), and supplies it to the session-based classification output unit 9. To do. The classification output unit 9 for each session
The terminal display format information TDI is stored in the auxiliary storage device 4 for each session number SN.

With such a configuration, the operation diagram of FIG. 3 is shown with respect to the operation of the worker, the processing apparatus 1, the terminal display message extraction section 7, the terminal display format conversion section 8 and the session-based classification output section 9 of the processing apparatus 1. It will be described with reference to FIG. First, in step SP1, if the communication log information CLI is stored in the MT, the worker inputs the MT into the input / output MT device 5
When the communication log information CLI is stored in the auxiliary storage device 4, the auxiliary storage device 4 is connected to the processing device 1. After that, the operator operates the input unit 3 to instruct the processing device 1 to start the terminal work history reproduction program.

As a result, the terminal work history reproduction program is started in the processing device 1, and the terminal display message extractor 7
Advances to the operation of step SP2, and communication log information CLI (see FIG. 2) is sent from the auxiliary storage device 4 or the input / output MT device 5.
(See (a)) for one telegram information, and then step S
Go to P3. In step SP3, the terminal display message extractor 7 determines whether or not all the communication log information CLI stored in the auxiliary storage device 4 or the input / output MT device 5 has been read. If the result of this judgment is "YES",
The processing device 1 proceeds to step SP9 described below. On the other hand, when the determination result of step SP3 is "NO", that is, when all the communication log information CLI stored in the auxiliary storage device 4 or the input / output MT device 5 is not read, the terminal display message extractor 7 Proceeds to step SP4.

In step SP4, the terminal display message extractor 7 determines whether or not the message information read in the operation of step SP2 is the terminal display message information based on the protocol ID. If the result of this determination is "NO",
The terminal display message extractor 7 returns to step SP2 described above to read the next communication log information CLI for one message information. On the other hand, the judgment result of step SP4 is "YE
In the case of "S", that is, when the electronic message information read in the operation of step SP2 is the terminal display electronic message information, the terminal display electronic message extracting unit 7 supplies the electronic message information to the terminal display format converting unit 8.

As a result, the terminal display format conversion section 8 proceeds to step SP5. In step SP5, the terminal display format conversion unit 8 acquires the collection time TM and the session number SN from the terminal display message information supplied from the terminal display message extracting unit 7, and then proceeds to step SP6. Step SP6
Then, the terminal display format conversion unit 8 converts the binary electronic message code EC into the terminal display format data TDD in the character format that can be displayed by each terminal, and then proceeds to step SP7. In step SP7, the terminal display format conversion unit 8 inserts the collection time TM at the beginning of the terminal display format data TDD and edits it into the terminal display format information TDI (see FIG. 2B).
It is supplied to the classification output unit 9 for each session.

As a result, the classification output section 9 for each session
Go to step SP8. In step SP8, the session-by-session classification output unit 9 converts the terminal display format information TDI supplied from the terminal display format conversion unit 8 into the above-described step SP5.
For each session number SN acquired by the terminal display format conversion unit 8 in the operation of 1., it is stored in the auxiliary storage device 4. As a result, the terminal display message extractor 7 causes the next communication log information CLI to
To read one telegram information, the above-mentioned step SP
Return to 2.

When the operation described above is executed for all the communication log information CLI stored in the auxiliary storage device 4 or the input / output MT device 5, the processing device 1 proceeds to step SP9. At step SP9, the processing device 1
The terminal display format information TDI edited for each session and stored in the auxiliary storage device 4 is displayed on the display unit 1 and the input / output MT device 5.
Alternatively, it is supplied to at least one of the output printer devices 6. As a result, the terminal display format information TDI is displayed on the display unit and stored in the input / output MT device 5, or
Printed on printer paper. Although the embodiment of the present invention has been described in detail above with reference to the drawings, the specific configuration is not limited to this embodiment, and there are design changes and the like without departing from the scope of the invention. Also included in the present invention.

[0017]

As described above, according to the present invention, the terminal work history for each session in a plurality of terminals connected to the host computer is transmitted between the host computer and the terminal, and is unified in the host computer. Since it is reproduced from the communication log information that is accumulated, the terminal work history of all sessions at the time of failure can be reproduced without any burden on the worker. Therefore, system failure analysis can be performed quickly.

Further, when evaluating the performance of the system or the user characteristics of the system, it is possible to collect the terminal work history for each session without imposing any burden on the actual worker. Therefore, another device for analyzing the response characteristic and the user characteristic of the system based on the terminal display format information, which is the final output data of the terminal work history reproducing device according to the present invention, is manufactured, and the device is used for system performance evaluation and system performance evaluation. If the user characteristics of are evaluated, the evaluation work can be performed quickly.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an overall configuration of a terminal work history reproduction device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a partial configuration example of communication log information CLI and a configuration example of terminal display format information TDI.

FIG. 3 is an operation diagram showing operations of a worker, a processing device 1, a terminal display message extracting unit 7, a terminal display format conversion unit 8 and a session-based classification output unit 9 of the processing device 1.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Processing Device 2 Display Unit 3 Input Unit 4 Auxiliary Storage Device 5 Input / Output MT Device 6 Output Printer Device 7 Terminal Display Message Extraction Unit 8 Terminal Display Format Converter 9 Session Classification Output Unit CLI Communication Log Information EC Message Code SN Session Number TDD terminal display format data TDI terminal display format information TM Collection time PID Protocol ID

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A terminal work history reproducing device for reproducing a terminal work history of each terminal in a shared use environment comprising a host computer and a plurality of terminals connected to the host computer, the terminal display message being a message. An extraction unit, a terminal display format conversion unit, and a session-based classification output unit are provided, and the terminal display message extraction unit is configured such that message information transmitted between the host computer and each terminal is on the host computer side. A collection time representing the time collected by the above, a session number for identifying a session which is a unit of time from when each terminal logs in to the host computer until it logs out, of the message information. A plurality of communication log information is stored in which one message information is composed of a protocol identification number indicating a type and a message code which is data actually transmitted between the host computer and each terminal. Were, from the magnetic tape or the auxiliary storage device or the like provided on the host computer side,
The one message information is read, and it is determined whether the one message information is terminal display message information based on the protocol identification number. If the one message information is terminal display message information, the one message information is determined. Is supplied to the terminal display format conversion unit, and if the one electronic message information is not the terminal display electronic message information, the next one electronic message information is read out, and the terminal display format conversion unit is supplied from the terminal display electronic message extraction unit. Further, the collection time and the session number are acquired from the terminal display message information, the binary message code is converted into character display format data that can be displayed on each terminal, and the collection time is displayed on the terminal. It is inserted at the beginning of the format data, edited into terminal display format information, and supplied to the session-by-session classification output section, and the session-by-session classification output section is supplied from the terminal display format conversion section. The terminal display format information classified for each of the session number, the auxiliary storage device terminal work history reproducing apparatus and to store in the.