What is persistent counters?

Persistent counters are used to record various system events, such as:

• When a user logs on.

• When a user runs a program and starts a job.

• When a job makes a call to another program.

• When a program accesses a database table or uses an index.

These events are stored in an embedded database with a time stamp and a usage count, that enables the user to run queries on these aspects of system usage.

The persistent counters functionality comes with a number of predefined queries, and also enables the user to customize the queries by modifying the existing definitions.

The embedded database can be managed in terms of creating backups, restoring backups and removing old entries.