CA Vantage GMI

CA Disk is now one of several CA products that make use of the same Graphical Management Interface (GMI) known as CA Vantage GMI. That is, as a licensed customer of CA Disk, you can use CA Vantage GMI and its Windows, Java, and 3270 clients to view and analyze your storage-related data. For CA Disk users, this includes the following abilities:

View and analyze your FILES online
View and analyze the Status Report and Subfiles online
Enhance DMSAR auto-restores with the Auto Restore Manager
It provides CA Disk activity analysis
You can Filter/Sort any field
You can ZOOM from DSNINDEX to ARCHVOLS
You can ZOOM from DSNINDEX to SMS Class
It provides Historical Restore analysis
You can perform queries from data set lists
You can perform Auto-Restore consolidation
It provides Thrashing analysis
It can tell you what tapes contain data sets backed up last night
It can advise you what data sets will expire in tonight's IXMAINT
You can find out what data sets have been restored nn times
You can find out when the data sets were restored
You can find out how much space is needed to restore a user's archived data
You can find out if any data sets been archived but not re-cataloged
You can filter on user data in the DSNINDEX
You can find out what's unprocessed in the deferred queue

This interface will increase storage management productivity by allowing personnel to gather information and identify problems fast because all the required information is just a click away.

For more information on CA Vantage GMI, see the CA Vantage documentation.