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3.3.4 WLM Report Options

The Management Objective Reports assume that a set of
objectives related to the operation of the Workload Manager
(WLM) have been determined.  Often, this may not be the case.
This section describes how the management objectives may be
specified to the reporting process once they have been
defined by management.

Numbers which will be used as management objectives should
not be defined without some analysis of the installation's
historical WLM performance.

The CA MICS database provides a useful information base for
analyzing historical performance.  It is suggested that one
or more of the following analyses be used to study past
performance.

Statistical Analysis:  The CA MICS database may be used to
analyze in-depth the measures around which the management
objectives are to be determined.  Specifically, the SAS
procedures UNIVARIATE and FREQ may be used to provide a
reasonable statistical analysis of an individual measure,
providing the analyst with mean, standard deviation, and
percentile values.  It is our opinion that the percentile
values may be the most applicable to the process of
determining the management objectives target values.

The following CA MICS database files should be used to
analyze WLM activity for purposes of establishing WLM Report
Options.  They are listed according to the reports to which
they apply:

  Daily   - DAYS.WLMSEC01
  Weekly  - WEEKS.WLMSEC01
  Monthly - MONTHS.WLMSEC01-12

In each case, the data source is the Service Class Resource
Consumption File.

The last input essential in defining management objectives
for WLM, is the minimum level of service, availability, and
throughput required by WLM users.

The integration of this information with data processing
management's own priorities and requirements establishes the
base for defining the management objectives for WLM.

The following sections describe specifically how an
installation is able to specify the numerical values used in
these reports.

    1 - Report Options
    2 - Report Options Macro Variables Example