6. DATA SOURCES › 6.6 CA MICS and CA SMF Director Interface

6.6 CA MICS and CA SMF Director Interface

CA SMF Director is an SMF management product with special
features that can be used to optimize CA MICS processing.  CA
SMF Director can significantly reduce operational overhead by
creating content specific files while simultaneously creating
an SMF historical archive during the SMF dump process.

CA MICS DAILY and incremental update operational jobs can be
modified to take advantage of this product, provided your
site is licensed for and has CA SMF Director installed in
your environment.

CA SMF Director provides functions that extract SMF data at
dump time or from previously archived SMF files.  These
functions eliminate the need for any external utilities used
for preprocessing of the SMF dump tape for data extraction
prior to execution of the DAILY job.  In addition, the DAYSMF
step of the CA MICS DAILY job may no longer be required.  For
details on how to eliminate the DAYSMF step, see section
5.10, Removing the DAYSMF Step from the DAILY Job of the PIOM
guide.

CA SMF Director SPLIT and EXTRACT statement operands provide
a way for you to create content specific files to meet your
requirements.  The main functions of the operands include the
ability to:

  o Select system identifiers
  o Select or exclude SMF record types and subtypes
  o Use conditional statements for granularity
  o Define time boundaries for SMF data

To use the SPLIT function of CA SMF Director for CA MICS
components, one or more SPLIT statements must be coded.  The
split is performed at SMF dump time and the files can then be
used as input to products in one or more units.  The same
results can be accomplished by using the EXTRACT function of
CA SMF Director, which retrieves data from the previously
created history files.  For more information on the SPLIT and
EXTRACT functions, see the CA SMF Director User Guide
at http://ca.com/support.
A complete set of SMF record types and subtypes, for each
CA MICS component that inputs SMF data, can be found in
sharedprefix.MICS.PARMS(cccSMFD), where ccc is the
three-character product identifier. Each PARMS member lists
the available SMF record types and subtypes for that
component in a format suitable for use in CA SMF Director
SPLIT and EXTRACT statements.  These members are provided as
examples only; the CA SMF Director JCL should not reference
sharedprefix.MICS.PARMS(cccSMFD).