1. OVERVIEW › 1.6 Benefits
1.6 Benefits
The CA MICS TSO Analyzer contributes to the overall benefits
that the CA MICS I/S Management Support System provides.
Those benefits fall into the following broad categories:
o Improves day-to-day I/S management
o Reduces risk to the enterprise
o Controls and/or helps reduce costs
o Improves return on the I/S investment
o Increases productivity
o Improves planning
The material below explains how the TSO Analyzer contributes
to these benefits.
Improves Day-to-Day I/S Management
o Allows managers to track TSO usage and plan corrective
actions to ensure smooth operations
o Allows problems to be identified faster and more
accurately and allows you to assess or quantify the impact
of a problem in terms of the root cause and what can be
done to resolve it
o Allows you to measure and track the service levels that
are being delivered for TSO workloads
Reduces Risk to the Enterprise
o Allows I/S to define exceptional conditions and assess
their impact
o Supports TSO/MON interval recording, which means that the
amount of measurement data lost due to system outages is
substantially reduced
o Provides auditing and control capabilities for TSO
activity
Controls and/or Helps Reduce Costs
o Provides a means to equitably charge users for the amount
of resources used
o Helps you to identify unused resources
o Can replace other TSO reporting products, thus eliminating
the costs maintaining separate products
Improves Return on the I/S Investment
o Allows managers to gauge the quality of service that is
being provided to TSO users
o Provides a basis for chargeback of TSO system and hardware
resource usage either through CA MICS Accounting and
Chargeback or a user-developed costing process
o Improves your ability to understand, report on, control,
and, if necessary, reduce TSO expenses
Increases Productivity
o Makes it easier for less knowledgeable users to interpret
the results of reports and use information in the data
base
o Provides the opportunity to learn about the
characteristics and use of TSO data via the comprehensive
Data Encyclopedia and reports documentation
o Reduces the task of coordinating information from multiple
sources, so that you can report or analyze information at
the enterprise level in addition to the system level
Improves Planning
o Allows managers to anticipate problems before the system
is affected
o Provides the raw data and a common frame of reference for
other analyses such as capacity and hardware planning,
workload balancing, and performance management
o Allows trend analysis through the use of summarized
historical data
