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3.7.5 Operational Procedure Documentation

In preparing to turn the CA MICS system over to full
production status, one of the most important steps is
providing the documentation required for your installation's
scheduling, operations, and production control departments.

It is recommended that the documentation procedures for
CA MICS be written to be consistent with your organization's
standards for documenting production systems.

The basic operation of the DAILY, INCRccc (optional
incremental update for product ccc), SPLITSMF (optional SMF
data split for INCRccc job input), WEEKLY, MONTHLY, YEARLY
and BACKUP jobs should be described as to their purpose,
scheduling considerations, and resource requirements.  Your
installation's standards may also require documentation for
the SCHEDULE job which submits the other jobs if the CA MICS
Job Scheduling Facility is used.  Lastly, the CA MICS DAILY,
WEEKLY, and MONTHLY jobs may "spin off" a corresponding
xxxxxRPT job if you have set AUTOSUBMIT YES in
prefix.MICS.PARMS(JCLDEF) (refer to Section 2.3.3.2.1.4,
Database Unit JCL Definitions).  The chapter on Operation
provides descriptive material that may be used directly or
modified for this purpose.

The procedure to be used for restart should be explained and
the list of names and phone numbers for operations to contact
in case of database problems should be documented.

The report distribution procedures should be provided to
enable the production control department to properly
distribute the reports to the appropriate individuals and
departments in a timely manner.

The above points describe the CA MICS system as being handled
similarly to other production systems.  Such treatment will
increase the overall productivity of the personnel assigned
to CA MICS by enabling them to focus their time on the use of
the CA MICS system.