1. OVERVIEW › 1.1 Primary Areas of Application

1.1 Primary Areas of Application

The CA MICS Hardware and SCP Analyzer provides data and
reporting capabilities that aid in the management of z/OS
system resources in the following areas:

   o  Performance Management - Performance data is available
      to pinpoint specific system problems.  The
      identification of these problems and their subsequent
      correction can result in significant improvement in
      system performance.  The ability to monitor resource
      consuming subsystems is an important aspect of any
      performance management effort.

   o  Capacity Planning -  The Hardware and SCP Analyzer
      maintains a database of historical CPU, memory,
      channel, and device usage and performance data.  This
      greatly facilitates growth/trend projections at the
      system level.

   o  Problem Resolution -  When a system problem occurs, it
      is often necessary to use the data provided by the RMF
      monitors to resolve it.  The database maintained by the
      Hardware and SCP Analyzer can be used to determine when
      a problem first occurred, how severe the problem was
      and what caused the problem.  Depending on the RMF
      parameters in use, this determination can be made to
      the service class period level or the actual job level.

   o  Management Reporting -  Users can extract, group, and
      summarize information directly from the database to
      create useful management reporting measures.
      Management can establish objectives for system resource
      utilization and performance, and then generate reports
      or one-page management summaries that compare actual
      performance against the objective.  In addition to the
      standard management reports that are distributed with
      the system, users can easily create custom reports by
      using online facilities.  Additional tools allow
      resummarization when the summarized data in the
      database do not directly address reporting needs.