9. PROCESSING › 9.1 Processing Requirements

9.1 Processing Requirements

CA MICS assumes that the SMF record collection (using
IFASMFDP) and processing (CA MICS DAILY job) occur daily.

The DB2 Analyzer can be installed either of two ways:

o In the same database unit as the CA MICS Batch and
  Operations Analyzer to run with CA MICS SMF processing.  In
  this case the SMF file will be read only once.

o In a separate database unit.  In this case both the Batch
  and Operations Analyzer and the DB2 Analyzer read the
  entire SMF file each day.

If it can be guaranteed that the Batch and Operations
Analyzer will execute before the DB2 Analyzer each day, it is
possible to have the Batch and Operations Analyzer extract
the Type 100 and 101 DB2 SMF records and leave these for
later processing by the DB2 Analyzer, thus speeding the Batch
and Operations Analyzer update.

To cause the Batch and Operations Analyzer to extract this
data, change the _USRSEL macro in
sharedprefix.MICS.SOURCE(#BASEXIT) to this:

MACRO _USRSEL
 IF ROUTINE='INPUTRDR' AND
 (SMFRTYPE EQ 100 OR SMFRTYPE EQ 101) THEN
 USERFILE=1;
%

The SMF Type 100 and 101 records will be extracted and
written to prefix.MICS.USER.DATA, where "prefix" is the
prefix of the unit database for the Batch and Operations
Analyzer. This file will then be used as input to the DB2
Analyzer.