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3.3.1.1 Report Format Descriptions

The Daily Management Objective Reports are produced as a
standard process in the CA MICS DAILY job stream. The SAS
CHART procedure is used to produce the desired bar chart
reports.

The heading lines contain the installation name (e.g., XYZ
Manufacturing, Inc.), the frequency identification (e.g.,
DAILY VM MANAGEMENT OBJECTIVES) the objective being reported
(e.g., VM RESOURCE CONSUMPTION WITHIN 2700 CPU SECONDS/HOUR),
and the computing system (e.g., SYSID code) on which the VM
processing was measured.

The format of the bar chart illustrates the hour of the day
along the horizontal axis and the measurement being reported
(e.g., availability), along the vertical axis.  The day being
reported is identified below the hours of the day, just under
the horizontal axis.

The vertical axis is used to chart the measure being reported
and it is with this axis that the management objective for
this category is defined.  The vertical axis is first
established through the SAS CHART AXIS option which simply
identifies the highest value to be represented on the
vertical axis.  The management objective is then illustrated
through the SAS CHART REF option and formats a dashed line
across the page to illustrate the management objective.

Consider the charting of the hourly objective for Q1 service
(response time; see Section 3.3.1.3, Daily VM Service
Report).  The title describes the management objective as
having average Q1 service within three seconds for all Q1
activity (usually equal to VM trivial command response time).
The measure that will be charted is the average Q1 service
time, shown for each hour of the day.  The vertical axis,
therefore, is set up for a maximum value of three seconds,
and the vertical reference line is printed at the three-
second level.  This reference line then clearly depicts how
the objective was satisfied or missed for each hour of the
day.

A special note should be made at this time to point out that
the location of the reference line on the vertical axis may
be rounded for purposes of scaling the axis.  Each vertical
line may have a unit value of .10 seconds, so a reference
line specification of 1.75 seconds does not fall directly on
a vertical axis coordinate.  In this case, the 1.75-second
line is shown as a line at 1.80 seconds.

The member DYVMCMBO in the sharedprefix.MICS.SOURCE library
contains the SAS statements for producing the charts.  The
member #VMCMOBJ contains the SAS statements used by DYVMCMBO.
The #VMCMOBJ member contains the specifications for defining
the objectives to be displayed and may be modified to reflect
your installation's unique management objectives.  For
defining your installation objectives, see Section 3.3.4, VM
Management Objective Report Options.

The remainder of this section explains and illustrates each
of the standard Daily VM Management Objective Reports.