1. OVERVIEW › 1.3 Reporting and Inquiry Facilities

1.3 Reporting and Inquiry Facilities

The Hardware and SCP Analyzer's reports and inquiries provide
concise, comprehensive information to help you manage your
hardware configuration.  They provide a reporting base to
which you can add your own reports.  Several types of reports
are provided:  Postprocessor, MICF Inquiries, Management
Objective, and Exception.  In addition, the standard SAS
language interface makes generalized inquiry and analysis
readily available.

The Hardware and SCP Analyzer provides the following reports,
which are briefly described here and discussed in greater
detail in Chapters 3 and 4 of this guide:

-------------------------------------------------------------
Report          Report
Category        Name
-------------------------------------------------------------
Post            Cache Subsystem Activity Detail Report
Processor       Cache Subsystem Activity Summary Report
                Channel Path Activity Report
                Coupling Facility Report
                CPU Activity Report
                Crypto Hardware Activity Report
                Device Activity Report
                Enqueue Activity Report
                Enterprise Disk Systems Report
                FICON Director Activity Report
                I/O Queuing Activity Report
                Page/Swap Data Set Activity Report
                Paging Activity Report
                RMF Summary Report
                Shared Device Activity Report
                Storage Group Device Report
                USS Kernel Activity Report
                Virtual Storage Summary Report
                Virtual Storage Detail Report
                Workload Manager Goal Mode Report
                XCF Activity Report

MICF            Daily Logical Control Unit Activity
Inquiries       DASD Response Time Components
                Daily Channel Utilization Analysis
                Daily System, Demand and Swap Paging
                Weekly Track of JES Real Memory Use
                Sysplex Aggregation Compliance Report

                (plus all Post Processor reports)

Management      Top Service Classes Service Units Consumers
Objective         Report
                Detail Service Unit Consumption Report
                Resource Consumption Report

Exception       Hardware Exception Value Analysis Report
                SCP Exception Value Analysis Report
-------------------------------------------------------------


POSTPROCESSOR REPORTS

Postprocessor reports provide reports equivalent to those
produced by the IBM RMF postprocessor.


MICF INQUIRIES

The CA MICS Information Center Facility (MICF) is a
panel-oriented productivity tool that gives you access to
information in the CA MICS database.  When you define input,
selection criteria, and report options, MICF dynamically
builds an inquiry program to fulfill your request.  The
inquiry program is executed either in batch mode or
interactive mode.  The results of the request are displayed
at the terminal, and either printed or cataloged for later
replay according to your specifications.

The Hardware and SCP Analyzer includes standard MICF
inquiries that are immediately useful.  You can either use
these inquiries directly from the MICF shared inquiry catalog
or copy inquiries to your private inquiry catalog and tailor
them to your specific needs.


MANAGEMENT OBJECTIVE REPORTS

Management Objective reports summarize the activities of the
IT organization.  These reports provide status information,
trend information, or a comparison of planned and actual
results.  The management control reports that accompany this
product can help you track system performance and service,
and plan for future resource requirements.

The Management Objective reports provide a concise, graphical
or tabular representation of the data center's processing
objectives and how well they have been met.  You define the
objectives for the reports through a series of parameters.
The reports are produced during normal CA MICS processing on
a daily, weekly, and monthly basis.  These reports can be
activated or deactivated for a timespan (DAILY, WEEKLY, or
MONTHLY).


EXCEPTION REPORTS

The CA MICS exception process provides management and
technical personnel with a means to identify deviations from
data center objectives that require the attention of the
technical staff.  CA MICS operational exception reports
organize and report problems in terms of their severity and
user-defined thresholds.  The operational exceptions also
associate the problems with their respective management
areas.

The Hardware and SCP Analyzer defines numerous exceptions
that are used by the CA MICS exception process.