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4.2.2.2 Operational Status and Tracking Facility
Operational Status and Tracking is an online tool for
initiating and monitoring CA MICS database operational
processing. It is available to authorized users from the
CA MICS Administrator Facility (MAF) option of the CA MICS
Workstation Facility (MWF).
If you have activated incremental update for one or more
products in the unit database, you will probably use a
production job scheduler or a manual procedure to schedule
the optional SPLITSMF job and the INCRccc jobs (one for each
product using incremental update). SPLITSMF and INCRccc job
scheduling is dependent upon the availability of the input
data and on day-time batch processing considerations unique
to your data center. Operational Status and Tracking does
not currently provide facilities for scheduling either the
SPLITSMF job or the INCRccc jobs, however they can still be
manually submitted and tracked using Operational Status and
Tracking.
For the CA MICS end-of-day processing, you can use the
SCHEDULE command to automatically submit DAILY, WEEKLY,
MONTHLY, or YEARLY processing according to the CA MICS
processing schedule. Alternatively, you can use Operational
Status and Tracking to "manually" submit DAILY, WEEKLY,
MONTHLY, or YEARLY processing. Operational Status and
Tracking will still prompt you when WEEKLY, MONTHLY, or
YEARLY processing is due.
The remainder of this section provides more information on
implementing CA MICS end-of-day production operation with
Operational Status and Tracking. See the reference section
and the online tutorials for detailed documentation on
Operational Status and Tracking facilities, panel data entry
instructions, and commands.
USING THE SCHEDULE COMMAND
Specify the correct overdue time-of-day for each CA MICS unit
database on the Operational Status and Tracking display.
Authorize production control personnel to access CA MICS
Operational Status and Tracking.
Authorize production control personnel to update the
prefix.MICS.RESTART.CNTL data set.
Train production control personnel to use Operational Status
and Tracking to control and monitor production CA MICS
processing. The information in section 4.2.1 is a good
starting point for training people to use the facility.
Each Day:
o Enter the SCHEDULE command for each CA MICS unit database
as soon as practical after CA MICS input data is
available.
Note: If you activated Incremental Update for one or more
products in this unit database, do NOT enter the SCHEDULE
command until after completing all INCRccc processing for
the day.
o Use the Operational Status and Tracking display to
monitor CA MICS production processing. Initiate problem
determination, correction, and restart if necessary.
If you specified AUTOSUBMIT YES in prefix.MICS.PARMS(JCLDEF),
CA MICS will automatically submit the DAILYRPT, WEEKRPT, and
MONTHRPT jobs using the JES internal reader.
If you specified AUTOSUBMIT NO in prefix.MICS.PARMS(JCLDEF),
you should reconsider your decision to use Operational Status
and Tracking to schedule production CA MICS processing
because CA MICS will NOT automatically submit DAILYRPT,
WEEKRPT, and MONTHRPT to perform daily/weekly/monthly MICF
inquiry production processing. You must manually submit the
DAILYRPT, WEEKRPT, and MONTHRPT jobs from prefix.MICS.CNTL.
o Submit DAILYRPT after the Operations Status and Tracking
display shows DAILY processing completed.
o Submit DAILYRPT and WEEKRPT after the Operations Status
and Tracking display shows WEEKLY processing completed.
o Submit DAILYRPT and MONTHRPT after the Operations Status
and Tracking display shows MONTHLY processing completed.
o Submit DAILYRPT after the Operations Status and Tracking
display shows YEARLY processing completed.
MANUAL SCHEDULING
Specify the correct overdue time-of-day for each CA MICS unit
database on the Operational Status and Tracking display.
Authorize production control personnel to access CA MICS
Operational Status and Tracking.
Authorize production control personnel to update the
prefix.MICS.RESTART.CNTL data set.
Train production control personnel to use Operational Status
and Tracking to control and monitor production CA MICS
processing. The information in section 4.2.1 is a good
starting point for training people to use the facility.
Each Day:
o Enter the DAILY, WEEKLY, MONTHLY, or YEARLY command as
noted in the Current Operation column for each CA MICS
unit database as soon as practical after CA MICS input
data is available.
Note: If you activated Incremental Update for one or more
products in this unit database, then do NOT enter the
DAILY, WEEKLY, MONTHLY, or YEARLY command until after
completing all INCRccc processing for the day.
- The current operation should have a status of DUE TODAY
or OVERDUE.
- The WEEKLY, MONTHLY, and YEARLY commands execute the
DAILY job in addition to the WEEKLY, MONTHLY, or YEARLY
job.
- The DAILY, WEEKLY, and MONTHLY commands include BACKUP
processing. If you want to defer BACKUP processing,
enter the NOBACKUP operand on the command line (that
is, DAILY p NOBACKUP where p is the unit database ID).
- If WEEKLY, MONTHLY, or YEARLY processing is due but you
wish to defer this processing to the next day, enter
the DAILY command. Tomorrow, Operational Status and
Tracking will once again request WEEKLY, MONTHLY, or
YEARLY processing.
o Use the Operational Status and Tracking display to
monitor CA MICS production processing. Initiate problem
determination, correction, and restart if necessary.
If you specified AUTOSUBMIT YES in prefix.MICS.PARMS(JCLDEF),
CA MICS will automatically submit the DAILYRPT, WEEKRPT, and
MONTHRPT jobs using the JES internal reader.
If you specified AUTOSUBMIT NO in prefix.MICS.PARMS(JCLDEF),
you should reconsider your decision to use Operational Status
and Tracking for production CA MICS processing because
CA MICS will NOT automatically submit DAILYRPT, WEEKRPT, and
MONTHRPT to perform daily/weekly/monthly MICF inquiry
production processing. You must manually submit, from
prefix.MICS.CNTL, the DAILYRPT, WEEKRPT, and MONTHRPT jobs.
o Submit DAILYRPT after the Operations Status and Tracking
display shows DAILY processing completed.
o Submit DAILYRPT and WEEKRPT after the Operations Status
and Tracking display shows WEEKLY processing completed.
o Submit DAILYRPT and MONTHRPT after the Operations Status
and Tracking display shows MONTHLY processing completed.
o Submit DAILYRPT after the Operations Status and Tracking
display shows YEARLY processing completed.
If you specified the YES, JOB, and AUTOSUBMIT options for the
ARCHIVE AUDIT, HISTW, and/or HISTM parameters in
prefix.MICS.PARMS(JCLDEF), CA MICS will automatically submit
the AUDIT, HISTW, and/or HISTM jobs using the JES internal
reader. (These jobs offload archive tape processing from the
WEEKLY and/or MONTHLY operational jobs to increase database
availability. This processing can alternatively be executed
within the WEEKLY and/or MONTHLY operational jobs.)
If you specified the YES and JOB options for the ARCHIVE
AUDIT, HISTW, and/or HISTM parameters in
prefix.MICS.PARMS(JCLDEF) BUT did NOT include the AUTOSUBMIT
option on these parameter statements, you should reconsider
your decision to use the CA MICS SCHEDULE job because CA MICS
will NOT automatically submit AUDIT, HISTW, or HISTM to
perform weekly and monthly archive tape processing. You must
manually submit the AUDIT, HISTW, and/or HISTM jobs.
o Submit AUDIT and/or HISTW (if activated) after the
Operations Status and Tracking display shows WEEKLY
processing completed.
o Submit HISTM (if activated) after the Operations Status
and Tracking display shows MONTHLY processing completed.
MONITORING CA MICS PRODUCTION PROCESSING
The primary Operational Status and Tracking display lists the
current status for each unit database. Overdue processing
and database update failures are noted.
o The STATUS command provides additional details relating
to unit database status and error conditions.
o The HISTORY command displays the database update audit
trail (ADMIHL file).
o The CHECKPT command displays the checkpoint database
update time range records.
o The JOBLOG command displays a processing audit log.
o You can override the default overdue time-of-day (8:00
a.m.) for each CA MICS unit database on the Operational
Status and Tracking display by scrolling RIGHT MAX and
changing the 8 a.m. default deadline.
