Generating CA Earl Reports on zVM

Generating CA Earl Reports on zVM

This chapter describes three methods to generate CA Earl reports on a VM system using the following:

• Full‑screen Facility

  CA ACF2 for VM provides the CA ACF2 for z/OS and OS/390 (CA ACF2) full‑screen facility. The full screen facility simplifies CA ACF2 administration and report generation. Use ACFFS to produce CA Earl reports that provide the same information as standard CA ACF2 reports.

• EARLRPTS Full‑screen Facility Subset

  EARLRPTS is a sample exec procedure that produces CA Earl reports. This sample exec is a subset of the ACFFS full‑screen facility. EARLRPTS has the advantage, however, to generate any CA Earl report using a full‑screen menu facility. This includes all of the CA Earl sample reports and all custom CA Earl reports that you develop.

• Manual Procedures

  CA ACF2 provides many commands and utilities to generate CA Earl reports manually or through VM exec procedures. To use CA Earl to create your own custom reports, familiarize yourself with these manual procedures. Use these manual procedures to produce custom reports.

This chapter focuses on the steps you must perform to produce a CA Earl report on a VM operating system. See the "Sample Reports" chapter for complete descriptions of the sample CA Earl reports that we provide with CA ACF2.

This section contains the following topics:

Using ACFFS

Using EARLRPTS

Generating zVM Reports Manually