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4.10 Integration with CA SMF Director

CA SMF Director is a software product for the management of
SMF data in a z/OS environment.  This product allows you to:

o  Automatically Unload SYSx.MANx Files
o  Maintain an Inventory of SMF Records by Date, Time, Volume
   Serial, and system ID.
o  Protect Data Sets Containing SMF Records
o  Print and/or Extract SMF Records by Date and Time
o  Automatically duplex and multiplex SMF Records
o  Validate SMF records
o  Automatic Magnetic Tape Management
o  Integrate with Other Storage Management Products

CA SMF Director can also be directed to write all or a
portion of the SMF records being dumped to other output
files.

Data management information is provided for the additional
output files, called split data sets (files), in the form of
an index, referred to as the split index.  The index itself
is managed and used by CA SMF Director, but a copy of it can
be produced by CA SMF Director for use by other applications,
such as CA MICS.  Throughout this documentation we will refer
to the copy of the index as the duplicate split index.

This benefits CA MICS processing in the following ways:

o  Enables CA MICS to process exactly the data necessary for
   a given component

o  Eases the preparation of data for incremental processing

The remainder of this chapter covers the following topics:

1 - CA SMF Director Prerequisites
2 - CA MICS Prerequisites
3 - Implementation Scenarios
4 - Checklists
5 - CA SMF Director Usage Notes