1. THE CA MICS APPLICATION EXTENSION FOR ASTEX › 1.1 CA MICS Product Interfaces

1.1 CA MICS Product Interfaces

The CA MICS Application Extension for ASTEX is distributed
with interfaces to CA MICS StorageMate and to CA MICS
Accounting and Chargeback.

CA MICS StorageMate
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The CA MICS StorageMate product provides for integrated
storage management reporting by merging information from the
CA MICS database to form a comprehensive view of your storage
subsystems.  It provides for quick and easy access to the
ASTEX data in CA MICS.  The StorageMate user does not need to
know either SAS or the structure of the CA MICS database to
get meaningful information on cache and DASD.

CA MICS Accounting and Chargeback
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This application extension supports an interface to CA MICS
Accounting and Chargeback that allows for charging on actual
cache usage.  This is NOT recommended, however, because ASTEX
has limits on the number of data sets and jobs it collects
information on.  This could result in inconsistent results.
Refer to Section 1.4.3 of this guide for more information.

Contact the CA MICS Product Support Group if you want to add
accounting support for ASTEX data set information.