3. Installation › 3.1 Installation Preparation

3.1 Installation Preparation

Please review chapter 2, especially the discussion of
planning and parameter specification in Section 2.3, complete
the Installation Prepartion Worksheets, and review the
CA MICS System Administrator Guide for announcements that
might pertain to your data center before starting to install
the CA MICS system.

To install CA MICS, review the list of considerations and
requirements below, review the installation checklist
presented at the end of this chapter, contact Technical
Support at http://ca.com/support if you have any questions
about the considerations or requirements in the list or tasks
on the checklist, then complete each step and task on the
checklist in the order specified.

For new installations, refer to the CA MICS Resource
Management Best Practices Guide, available from CA Support
Online, for a streamlined installation methodology.

    Considerations and Requirements for Installing CA MICS

    o  CA MICS CLISTs require that the #, @, $, ?, :, ;, or "
       (double quote) NOT be used as control characters with
       the TSO background TMP.

    o  Not all release levels of the SAS program product in
       the field are supported for CA MICS database
       updating.  Consult the CA MICS System Administrator
       Guide to determine the level of SAS to be used for the
       CA MICS update process.  We recommend that a set of
       SAS libraries be created and used for CA MICS as
       discussed in Section 2.2.3.

    o  CA MICS assumes that a standard record format is used
       for all input data sources.  Any local modifications
       to these record formats may require modification of
       CA MICS code.

    o  Special installation procedures will be required if
       multiple SYSIDs are assigned to the same CPU.  Each
       CPU must have a unique SYSID.

    o  Frequent adjustment of the time-of-day clock on any of
       the CPUs for accounting or other reasons will result
       in predictably bad data.

    o  The jobs created by CA MICS JCL generation have
       certain CPU time limits specified for them.  You may
       want to modify these limits as appropriate for your
       processor speed and data volumes.

    o  The CA MICS CLISTs need a LOGON PROC that specifies
       DYNAMNBR=100 to ensure that all of the CA MICS data
       sets can be allocated.

    o  SAS libraries must be available.

    o  ISPF and ISPF/PDF libraries must be available.


    SMF Issues

    o  A special user modification is required if any
       accounting data is required from a user-generated SMF
       record extension.

    o  SMF data from multiple CPUs that are loosely-coupled
       (JES3 or multi-access spool JES2) should be
       consolidated into a single unit database.

    o  CA MICS data integration products process many
       different SMF record types.  Please refer to
       prefix.MICS.GENLIB(cccGENIN) for SMF records used in
       each product.

We strongly recommended that the individual installing
CA MICS follow the above instructions and discuss any
problems or issues with Technical Support at
http://ca.com/support before starting the items in the
checklist.