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Chapter 11 - Standard Reports

GPSS World provides for extensive statistics reporting that often gets you the results you need with
no additional effort. The final states of all traditional GPSS Entities are reported in a Standard Report
that is created automatically when each simulation terminates.

lf you have additional reporting needs, you should consult the discussion of Data Streams in Chapter
4.

11 .1 . Report Management
Normally, GPSS World creates a detailed Standard Report of each simulation. Each Report Object is
automatically created unless you speci fy NP as operand B of the START Command. You can also
suppress the creation of Standard Reports using Settings. To do so, be sure Create Standard
Reports is not checked in the Report page of the Model Settings Notebook.

The REPORT and START Commands are discussed in Chapter 6.

11.1.1. Report Windows

\You can cause a Report Object to be opened for each newly created Standard Report. To do so,
check Create Standard Reports and In Windows in the Report page of the Model Settings
Notebook.

11.1.2. Controlling Report Contents

You can select the contents of a model's Standard Reports using a set of checkboxes in the Report
page of the Model Settings Notebook. This is opened when you select Edit / Settings from the Main
Menu. This is discussed in Chapter 2.

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Report Windows have full text editing, font, color, and printing capabilities. This is discussed in Chapter 2,
under the section entitled, Text Windows.

11.2. Sample Report

11.2.1. Model

The Model File that follows was used to generate the sample report output in the next section. When
this Model File, named SAMPLE9.GPS, is Translated and run, it produces the automatic report
named SAMPLE9.001. The model's only purpose is to display all the various graphics and text
windows in the Tutorial Manual in Chapter 1, Lesson 11 and to demonstrate the layout of the report
and meanings of the various parts of the report in this chapter.

; GPSS World Sample File - SAMPLE9.GPS Model to demo graphics windows

Pool STORAGE 400 ;Define Storage
Matrixl MATRIX ,5,5 ;Define Matrix
Transit TABLE Ml,200,200,20 ;Transit time in wait; and process

GENERATE (Exponential(l,0,100))
JOIN Maingrp ;Xact joins grp called; Maingrp
JOIN Numgrp,9999 ;Add 9999 to Numeric
SAVEVALUE Addup+,1 ;Total of Transactions
ASSIGN Param_l,232 ;Assign Xact parameter
JOIN Numgrp,P$Param_l ;Put value in
Paraml LOGIC S Switch 1 ;Turn on a
logic switch MSAVEVALUE Matrixl,2,2,QA$Tot
Process
QUEUE Tot Process ;Queue for process time
SEIZE Facilityl ;Own first Facility
LINK Chainl,FIFO,Nxtblk ;Put on Userchain if busy
Nxtblk SEIZE Facility2 ;Own a second Facility
SEIZE Facility3 ;Own a third Facility
QUEUE Process Time ;Keep track of process
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ADVANCE 100,(Exponential (1, O,
100)) DEPART Process Time ;Record
length
TABULATE Transit ;Add wait + process
RELEASE Facilityl ;Give up 1st Facility
ADVANCE 20 ;Delay time for Fac 2&3
RELEASE Facility2 ;Give up 2nd Facility
ADVANCE 10 ;Extra delay time-Fac 3
RELEASE Facility3 ;Give up 3rd Facility
DEPART Tot Process ;Leave Queue
UNLINK Chainl,Nxtblk ;Take off waiting Xacts
ENTER Pool,100 ;Place 100 units in the Storage
LOGIC R Switch 1 ;Turn off logic switch
LEAVE Pool,50 ;Take 50 units from Storage
SAVEVALUE Collect-,1 ;Show negative Savevalue
REMOVE Maingrp ;Remove Xact from group
ADVANCE 50,1 ;Wait 50(+/-l) time units
LEAVE Pool,50 ;Take 50 units from Storage
Finis TERMINATE 1 ;Destroy Xact

11.2.2. Report

This section contains a standard report generated by the program listed in Section 11.2.1. Each
item is explained individually in Section 11.3.

Let's now examine the items included in a standard GPSS World Report. This section includes
the complete report resulting from the simulation in Section 11.2.1. The individual items are
considered separately in Section 11.3.

GPSS World Simulation Report - SAMPLE9.l.l

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START TIME END TIME BLOCKS FACILITIES STORAGES
0.000 5187.692 32 3 1

NAME VALUE
ADDUP 10007.000
CHAINl 10012.000
COLLECT 10017.000
FACILITYl 10011.000
FACILITY2 10014.000
FACILITY3 10015.000
FINIS 32.000
MAINGRP 10005.000
MATRIXl 10003.000
NUMGRP 10006.000
NXTBLK 12.000
PARAM 1 10008.000
POOL 10002.000
PROCESS TIME 10016.000
SWITCH 1 10009.000
TOT PROCESS 10010.000
TRANSIT 10004.000

LABEL LOC BLOCK TYPE ENTRY COUNT CURRENT COUNT RETRY

1 GENERATE 61 1 o
2 JOIN 60 o o
3 JOIN 60 o o
4 SAVEVALUE 60 o o
5 ASSIGN 60 o o
6 JOIN 60 o o
7 LOGIC 60 o o
8 MSAVEVALUE 60 o o
9 QUEUE 60 9 o
10 SEIZE 51 o o
11 LINK 51 o o
NXTBLK 12 SEIZE 51 o o
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13 SEIZE 51 o o
14 QUEUE 51 o o
15 ADVANCE 51 1 o
16 DEPART 50 o o
17 TABULATE 50 o o
18 RELEASE 50 o o
19 ADVANCE 50 o o
20 RELEASE 50 o o
21 ADVANCE 50 o o
22 RELEASE 50 o o
23 DEPART 50 o o
24 UNLINK 50 o o
25 ENTER 50 o o
26 LOGIC 50 o o
27 LEAVE 50 o o
28 SAVEVALUE 50 o o
29 REMOVE 50 o o
30 ADVANCE 50 o o
31 LEAVE 50 o o
FINIS 32 TERMINATE 50 o o

FACILITY ENTRIES UTIL. AVE. TIME AVAIL. OWNER PEND INTER RETRY DELAY
FACILITYl 51 0.937 95.278 1 51 O O O 9
FACILITY2 51 0.853 86.719 1 51 O O O O
FACILITY3 51 0.949 96.523 1 51 O O O O

QUEUE MAX CONT. ENTRY ENTRY(0) AVE.CONT. AVE.TIME AVE.(-0) RETRY

TOT PROCESS 11 10 60 O 6.439 556.700 556.700 O
PROCESS TIME 1 1 51 O 0.660 67.112 67.112 O

STORAGE CAP. REM. MIN. MAX. ENTRIES AVL. AVE.C. UTIL. RETRY DELAY
POOL 400 400 O 150 5000 1 23.628 0.059 O O

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TABLE MEAN STD.DEV. RANGE RETRY FREQUENCY CUM.%

TRANSIT 553.184 307.992
o- 200.000 8 16.00
200.000 - 400.000 10 36.00
400.000 - 600.000 7 50.00
600.000 - 800.000 12 74.00
800.000 - 1000.000 11 96.00
1000.000 - 1200.000 2 100.00

USER CHAIN SIZE RETRY AVE.CONT ENTRIES MAX AVE.TIME

CHAINl o o 0.277 48 1 29.927

XACT GROUP GROUP SIZE RETRY

MAINGRP 10 o

NUMERIC GROUP GROUP SIZE RETRY

NUMGRP 2 o

LOGICSWITCH VALUE
RETRY SWITCH 1 1 0

SAVEVALUE RETRY VALUE

ADDUP O 60.000
COLLECT O -50.000

MATRIX RETRY INDICES NUMERIC VALUE

MATRIXl O
Intermediate Values are Zero.
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Intermediate Values are Zero.

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CEC XN PRI Ml ASSEM CURRENT NEXT PARAMETER VALUE

61 O 5187.692 61 1 2

FEC XN PRI BDT ASSEM CURRENT NEXT PARAMETER VALUE

51 O 5389.554 51 15 16
PARAM 1 232.000
62 O 5523.253 62 1
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This section explains the items in the standard GPSS World report.

Title
GPSS World Simulation Report - SAMPLE9.l.l
Tuesday June 6, 2000 14:00:59

The title line of the standard report is taken from the name of the Model File that produced the report.
The Date and Time of the running of the model is also included.

General lnformation
START TIME END TIME BLOCKS FACILITIES STORAGES
0.000 5187.692 32 3 1

· START TIME. The absolute system clock at the beginning of the measurement period.
Utilizations and space-time products are based on the START TIME. The START TIME is
set equal to the absolute system clock by a RESET or CLEAR statement.

· END TIME. The absolute clock time that the termination count became O.

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· BLOCKS. The number of Block entities in the simulation at the end of the simulation.

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· FACILITIES. The number of Facility entities in the simulation at the end of the simulation.

· STORAGES. The number of Storage entities in the simulation at the end of the simulation.

Names
NAME VALUE
ADDUP 10007.000
CHAINl 10012.000
COLLECT 10017.000
FACILITYl 10011.000

· NAME. User assigned names used in your GPSS World model since the last Translation.

· VALUE. The numeric value assigned to the name. System assigned numbers start at
10000.

Blocks
LABEL LOC BLOCK TYPE ENTRY COUNT CURRENT COUNT RETRY
1 GENERATE 61 1 o
2 JOIN 60 o o
3 JOIN 60 o o
4 SAVEVALUE 60 o o
5 ASSIGN 60 o o
· LABEL. Alphanumeric name of this Block if given one.

· LOC. Numerical position of this Block in the model. "Location".

· BLOCK TYPE. The GPSS Block name.

· ENTRY COUNT. The number of Transactions to enter this Block since the last RESET or
CLEAR statement or since the last Translation.
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· CURRENT COUNT. The number of Transactions in this Block at the end of the simulation.

· RETRY. The number of Transactions waiting far a specific condition depending on the
state of this Block entity.

Facilities

FACILITY ENTRIES UTIL. AVE. TIME AVAIL. OWNER PEND INTER RETRY
DELAY
FACILITYl 51 0.937 95.278 1 51 o o o 9
FACILITY2 51 0.853 86.719 1 51 o o o o
FACILITY3 51 0.949 96.523 1 51 o o o o
· FACILITY. Name or number of the Facility entity.

· ENTRIES. The number of times the Facility was seized or preempted since last RESET or
CLEAR command or since the last Translation of the model.

· UTIL. The fraction of simulated time in the last measurement period that the Facility was
owned. A measurement period begins with the Translation of a model or the issuing of a
RESET or CLEAR command.

· AVE. TIME. The average time of ownership by individual Transactions during the
measurement period. A measurement period begins with a Translation of the model, or
when a RESET or CLEAR command is issued.

· AVAIL. The availability state of the Facility entity at the end of the simulation. 1 means
available, O means unavailable.

· OWNER. The number of the Transaction which owns the Facility entity. O means the
Facility is not owned.

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· PENO. The ílUmber of Traílsactioíls waitiílg to preempt this Facility by eílteriílg "lílterrupt
Mode" PREEMPT blocks.

· INTER. The ílUmber of Traílsactioíls curreíltly preempted at this Facility. The couílt
of Traílsactioíls Oíl the iílterrupt chaiíl.

· RETRY. The ílUmber of Traílsactioíls waitiílg far a specific coílditioíl depeíldiílg oíl
the state of this Facility eíltity.

· DELAY. The ílUmber of Traílsactioíls waitiílg to SEIZE the Facility. This chaiíl also
coíltaiíls Traílsactioíls waiting to preempt the Facility in "Priority Mode" PREEMPT blocks.

Queues
QUEUE MAX CONT. ENTRY ENTRY(0) AVE.CONT. AVE.TIME AVE.(-0)
RETRY
TOT PROCESS 11 10 60 o 6.439 556.700 556.700 o
PROCESS TIME 1 1 51 o 0.660 67.112 67.112 o

· QUEUE. Name or ílUmber of the Queue eíltity.

· MAX. The maximum coílteílt of the Queue eíltity duriílg the measuremeílt period. A
measurement period begins with the Translation of a model or the issuing of a RESET or
CLEAR commaíld.

· CONT. The curreílt coílteílt of the Queue eíltity at the eíld of the simulatioíl period.

· ENTRY. Eíltry couílt. The total couílt of Queue eíltries duriílg the measuremeílt period.

· ENTRY(0). "Zero eíltry" couílt. The total couílt of Queue eíltries with a O resideílce time.

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· AVE.CONT. The time weighted average of the Queue entity content during the
measurement period. The space-time product divided by the time duration of the
measurement period.

· AVE.TIME. The average time per unit of Queue content utilized during the measurement
period. The space-time product divided by the total entry count.

· AVE.(-0). The average time per unit of Queue content utilized during the measurement
period, adjusted far "zero entries". The space-time product divided by (the total entry count
less the zero entry count).

· RETRY. The number of Transactions waiting far a specific condition depending on the
state of this Queue entity.

Storages

STORAGE CAP. REM. MIN. MAX. ENTRIES AVL. AVE.C. UTIL. RETRY DELAY
POOL 400 400 O 150 5000 1 23.628 0.059 O O

· STORAGE. Name or number of the Storage entity.

· CAP. The Storage capacity of the Storage entity defined in the STORAGE statement.

· REM. The number of unused Storage units at the end of the simulation.

· MIN. The minimum number of Storage units in use during the measurement period. A
measurement period begins with the Translation of a model or the issuing of a RESET or
CLEAR command.

· MAX. The maximum number of Storage units in use during the measurement period.

· ENTRIES. The number of "entries" into the Storage entity during the measurement period.
The total accumulation of operand B of ENTER statements.

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· AVL. The availability state of the Storage entity at the end of the simulation. 1 means
available, O means unavailable.

· AVE.e. The time weighted average of the Storage content during the measurement
period. The space-time product divided by the time duration of the measurement period.

· UTIL. The fraction of the total space-time product of the Storage entity utilized during the
measurement period.

· RETRY. The number of Transactions waiting far a specific condition depending on the
state of this Storage entity.

· DELAY. The number of Transactions waiting to enter ENTER blocks on behalf of this
Storage entity.

Tables and Qtables

TABLE MEAN STD.DEV. RANGE RETRY FREQUENCY
CUM.%
TRANSIT 553.184 307.992
O - 200.000 8 16.00
200.000 - 400.000 10 36.00
400.000 - 600.000 7 50.00
600.000 - 800.000 12 74.00
800.000 - 1000.000 11 96.00
1000.000 - 2 100.00
1200.000

· TABLE. Name or number of the Table or Qtable entity.

· MEAN. The weighted arithmetic average of tabulated values.

· STD.DEV. The weighted sample standard deviation of tabulated values.

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Where SOS is the accumulated sum-of-squares.

· RANGE. The lower and upper limits of the frequency class being reported. Values of the
Table argument which are greater than the lower limit and less than or equal to the upper
limit cause this frequency class to be updated. The B operand of the TABULATE statement
can be used to provide a weighting factor. Frequency classes with accumulations of O are
not reported.

· RETRY. The number of Transactions waiting far a specific condition depending on the
state of this Table entity.

· FREQUENCY. The total weighted count of tabulated items to fall within this range. The
total of all TABULATE B operands.

· CUM.% The cumulative frequency count expressed as percent of total count.

Userchains
USER CHAIN SIZE RETRY AVE.CONT ENTRIES MAX
CHAINl o o 0.277 AVE.TIME 48
1 29.927

· USER CHAIN. Name or number of the Userchain entity.

· SIZE. The number of Transactions on the User Chain at the end of the measurement
period.

· RETRY. The number of Transactions waiting far a specific condition depending on the
state of this Userchain entity.

· AVE.CONT. The time weighted average of the User Chain occupancy count during the
measurement period. The space-time product divided by the time duration of the
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· ENTRIES. The total ílUmber of Traílsactioíls placed Oíl the User Chaiíl during the
measuremeílt period.

· MAX. The maximum ílUmber of Traílsactions Oíl the User Chaiíl during the measuremeílt
period.

· AVE.TIME. The average time per Transactioíl on the User Chain during the measuremeílt
period. The space-time product divided by the total eíltry count.

Transaction Groups
XACT GROUP GROUP SIZE RETRY
MAINGRP 10 o

· XACT GROUP. Name or ílUmber of the Traílsactioíl Group eíltity.

· GROUP SIZE. The ílUmber of Traílsactioíls which are members of the group at the eíld
of the simulatioíl.

· RETRY. The ílUmber of Traílsactioíls waitiílg for a specific coílditioíl depeíldiílg on

the state of this Traílsactioíl Group eíltity.

Numeric Groups
NUMERIC GROUP GROUP SIZE RETRY
NUMGRP 2 o

· NUMERIC GROUP. Name or ílUmber of the Numeric Group eíltity.

· GROUP SIZE. The ílUmber of numeric values which are members of the group at the
eíld of the simulatioíl.

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· RETRY. The number of Transactions waiting far a specific condition depending on the
state of this Numeric Group entity.

Logicswitches
LOGICSWITCH VALUE RETRY
SWITCH 1 1 O

· LOGICSWITCH. Name or number of the Logicswitch entity.

· VALUE. The value of the Logicswitch entity at the end of the simulation. 1 denotes "set" or
"true", O denotes "reset" or "false".

· RETRY. The number of Transactions waiting far a specific condition depending on the
state of this Logicswitch entity.

Savevalues
SAV EVALUE RETRY VALUE
ADDUP O 6
0.000
COLLECT O -50.000

· SAVEVALUE. Name or number of the Savevalue entity.

· VALUE. The value of the Savevalue entity at the end of the simulation.

· RETRY. The number of Transactions waiting far a specific condition depending on the
state of this Savevalue entity.

Matrix Entities

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MATRIX RETRY INDICES NUMERIC VALUE
MATRIXl O
Interrnediate Values are Zero.
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Interrnediate Values are Zero.

· MATRIX. Name or number of the Matrix entity.

· RETRY. The number of Transactions waiting for a specific condition depending on the
state of this Matrix entity.

· INDICES. Up to 6 integers that specify the element of the Matrix.

· VALUE. The value of this Matrix entity element at the end of the simulation. Elements with
O values are reported in groups.

The Current Events Chain

CEC XN PRI Ml ASSEM CURRENT NEXT PARAMETER VALUE
61 O 5187.692 61 1 2

· XN. Transaction number of each Transaction on the Current Events Chain

· PRI. Scheduling priority of the Transaction.

· M1. Mark time. The time the Transaction, or its earliest ancestor, was GENERATEd, or the
time the Transaction entered a MARK Block with no operands.

· ASSEM. The Assembly Set number of the Transaction.

· CURRENT. The number of the Block where the Transaction existed at the end of the
simulation or at the time of this report.

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· NEXT. The number of the next Block scheduled to be entered by the Transaction.

· PARAMETER. The names or numbers of parameters of the Transaction.

· VALUE. The value of the parameter.

The Future Events Chain

FEC XN PRI BDT ASSEM CURRENT NEXT PARAMETER VALUE
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· XN. Transaction number of each Transaction on the Future Events Chain.

· PRI. Scheduling priority of the Transaction.

· BDT. Block departure time. The time of the absolute system clock when the Transaction
is scheduled to leave the Future Events Chain.

· ASSEM. The Assembly Set number of the Transaction.

· CURRENT. The number of the Block where the Transaction existed at the end of
the simulation or at the time of this report.

· NEXT. The number of the next Block scheduled to be entered by the Transaction.

· PARAMETER. The names or numbers of parameters of the Transaction.

· VALUE. The value of the parameter.

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