1. OVERVIEW › 1.1 Primary Areas of Application

1.1 Primary Areas of Application

The CA MICS Space Collector Option provides data and
reporting capabilities that aid you in managing complex DASD
systems in the following areas:

    o  Performance--You can monitor DASD space usage,
       including data set allocation, free space
       fragmentation, and alternate track assignments.

    o  Capacity Planning--You can extract MVS VTOC and
       catalog data that the CA MICS Space Analyzer Option
       can use to monitor DASD demand.  This facilitates
       growth-trend projections at both the division and
       department levels.

    o  Accounting and Chargeback--VCC provides DASD usage
       data through VCA to CA MICS Accounting and Chargeback
       to facilitate accounting for all or selected system
       users.

    o  SMS Migration--VCC can optionally identify uncataloged
       data sets.  This facilitates migration to DFSMS
       because it allows you to identify data sets that must
       be either deleted or cataloged prior to volume
       conversion for SMS.

VCC also contributes to the overall benefits available from
the CA MICS system by:

    o  Improving day-to-day IS management by allowing
       managers to track DASD usage and plan corrective
       actions to ensure smooth operations

    o  Reducing risk to the enterprise by providing audit and
       control capabilities for all DASD use

    o  Controlling or reducing costs by:

       -  allowing you to equitably charge users for the
          amount of DASD they use

       -  identifying, in conjunction with other operating
          system management products, unused resources to
          substantially reduce the products' associated costs

       -  eliminating the costs associated with maintaining
          other, separate DASD reporting products

    o  Improving return on the IS investment by:

       -  providing a basis for operating system and hardware
          resource usage chargeback either through CA MICS
          Accounting and Chargeback or a basic
          user-developed costing process

       -  improving your ability to understand, report on,
          control, and, if necessary, reduce DASD expenses

    o  Increasing productivity by:

       -  allowing less experienced users to interpret report
          results and use database information

       -  reducing the task of coordinating information from
          multiple sources so that you can report or analyze
          information at the enterprise rather than the
          system level

       -  reducing the large quantities of DASD usage data to
          a manageable and easily used format

    o  Improving planning by:

       -  allowing you to perform trend analysis through the
          use of summarized historical data

       -  collecting DFSMS data that can be used to plan or
          monitor DFSMS implementation

       -  collecting details on the POSIX files and

directories within a Hierarchical File System.