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3.3.1.1 Report Format Description

The daily reports are produced as a standard process in the
CA MICS daily job stream.  The reports are produced from the
most recent cycle (01) of the Service Class Resource
Consumption (WLMSEC) file, maintained in the database's DAYS
timespan.  The SAS CHART procedure is used to produce the
desired reports.

The heading lines contain the installation name (for example,
XYZ Manufacturing, Inc.), the frequency identification (that
is, Daily WLM Management Objectives), the objective being
reported and the computing system (that is, the SYSID) on
which the WLM activity was measured.

The bar chart illustrates the day and hour, and the
measurement being reported (service units).

A horizontal 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 horizontal axis is first
established through the SAS CHART AXIS option which
identifies the highest value represented on the horizontal
axis.  The SAS CHART REF option formats a dashed line down
the page to illustrate the management objective.

Consider the chart of resource consumption by service class
(see Figure 3-22).  The title describes the management
objective as utilizing within 30% of the total service units
for the hour.  The measure that would be charted is the
percentage of resource consumed (service units), for each
service class, by hour.  The horizontal axis therefore, would
be set up for a maximum value of 100 (for 100%) and the
horizontal reference line would be printed at the 30% level.
This reference line then clearly depicts how the maximum
usage for any service class was satisfied or missed for each
hour of the day.

Note especially that the location of the reference line may
be rounded for purposes of scaling the axis.  Each horizontal
line may have a unit value of 2.5%, and therefore a reference
line specification of 32% would not fall directly on a
vertical axis coordinate.  In this case, the 32% line would
be shown as a line at 30%.

The member DYRMFMBO in the sharedprefix.MICS.SOURCE library
contains the SAS statements for producing the chart report.
For information on defining your installation objectives,
see section 3.3.4, WLM Report Options.