How to find out about what's been collected in /mydir/, and how many seconds it took: 
  dataset_history.com /data/mcfuser/mydir

How long since last image was collected?:
  idle.com
How to find out what the currently configure runs are?
  echo "" | xos3_exchange.tcl 1 "depend" | grep "configure_run"

Note: /programs/beamline/run1.com:  contains the following lines which can help decode that xos3_exchange.tcl

# DCSS 3.0 format:
#  1                  2     3      4    5     6         7          8       9         10   11    12    13   14   15   16    17 18 19 20 21   22  23
# key               runid status nowon run# prefix     dir      startat  axis      start end   osc  wedge time dist waves values . . .     mode IB

Here's an example of what that xos3 command returns: 
(for more info search for "xos3" in http://bl831.als.lbl.gov/~jamesh/beamline/holton_utilities.html)

mcfuser@graphics1:/home/mcfuser 27% echo "" | xos3_exchange.tcl 1 "depend" | grep "configure_run"
stog_configure_runs 1 1 0 1
stog_configure_run run0   inactive  0 0  test /data/mcfuser 1 gonio_phi  0.00 1.00  1.00 1.0  1.0  300.000  1 11111.00 0 0 0 0  2  0
stog_configure_run run1  inactive  0 1  test /data/mcfuser/timing 1 gonio_phi  0 100  1.00 1.00  1.0  600  1 12398.42 0 0 0 0  2  0
stog_configure_run run2   inactive  0 2  test /data/mcfuser 1 gonio_phi  0.00 1.00  1.00 1.0  1.0  300.000  1 11111.00 0 0 0 0  2  0
stog_configure_run run3   inactive  0 3  test /data/mcfuser 1 gonio_phi  0.00 1.00  1.00 1.0  1.0  300.000  1 11111.00 0 0 0 0  2  0
stog_configure_run run4   inactive  0 4  test /data/mcfuser 1 gonio_phi  0.00 1.00  1.00 1.0  1.0  300.000  1 11111.00 0 0 0 0  2  0
stog_configure_run run5   inactive  0 5  test /data/mcfuser 1 gonio_phi  0.00 1.00  1.00 1.0  1.0  300.000  1 11111.00 0 0 0 0  2  0
stog_configure_run run6   inactive  0 6  test /data/mcfuser 1 gonio_phi  0.00 1.00  1.00 1.0  1.0  300.000  1 11111.00 0 0 0 0  2  0
stog_configure_run run7   inactive  0 7  test /data/mcfuser 1 gonio_phi  0.00 1.00  1.00 1.0  1.0  300.000  1 11111.00 0 0 0 0  2  0
stog_configure_run run8   inactive  0 8  test /data/mcfuser 1 gonio_phi  0.00 1.00  1.00 1.0  1.0  300.000  1 11111.00 0 0 0 0  2  0
stog_configure_run run9   inactive  0 9  test /data/mcfuser 1 gonio_phi  0.00 1.00  1.00 1.0  1.0  300.000  1 11111.00 0 0 0 0  2  0
stog_configure_run run10  inactive  0 10 test /data/mcfuser 1 gonio_phi  0.00 1.00  1.00 1.0  1.0  300.000  1 11111.23 0 0 0 0  2  0
stog_configure_run run11  inactive  0 11 test /data/mcfuser 1 gonio_phi  0.00 1.00  1.00 1.0  1.0  300.000  1 11111.00 0 0 0 0  2  0
stog_configure_run run12  inactive  0 12 test /data/mcfuser 1 gonio_phi  0.00 1.00  1.00 1.0  1.0  300.000  1 11271.23 0 0 0 0  2  0
stog_configure_run run13  inactive  0 13 test /data/mcfuser 1 gonio_phi  0.00 1.00  1.00 1.0  1.0  300.000  1 11271.23 0 0 0 0  2  0
stog_configure_run run14  inactive  0 14 test /data/mcfuser 1 gonio_phi  0.00 1.00  1.00 1.0  1.0  300.000  1 11271.23 0 0 0 0  2  0
stog_configure_run run15  inactive  0 15 test /data/mcfuser 1 gonio_phi  0.00 1.00  1.00 1.0  1.0  300.000  1 11271.23 0 0 0 0  2  0
stog_configure_run run16  inactive  0 16 test /data/mcfuser 1 gonio_phi  0.00 1.00  1.00 1.0  1.0  300.000  1 11271.23 0 0 0 0  2  0