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3.3.2.1 Report Format Descriptions

The Weekly Management Objective Reports are produced as a
standard process in the CA MICS Weekly 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.,
WEEKLY 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 and 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 3.3.2.3, Weekly VM Service
Report).  The title would describe 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 would be charted is the average Q1 service
time, shown for each hour of each day.  Therefore, the
vertical axis would be set up for a maximum value of three
seconds, and the vertical reference line would be printed at
the three-second level.  This reference line then clearly
depicts how the objective was satisfied or missed for each
hour of each 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 would not fall directly on
a vertical axis coordinate.  In this case, the 1.75-second
line would be shown as a line at 1.80 seconds.

The member WKVMCMBO in the sharedprefix.MICS.SOURCE library
contains the SAS statements for producing the charts.  The
member #VMCMOBJ contains the SAS MACROs used by WKVMCMBO.
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's objectives, see Section 3.3.4,
VM Management Objective Report Options.

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