1. OVERVIEW › 1.4 Files Overview

1.4 Files Overview

The CA MICS Space Collector Option records data in a standard
SMF-style format that can be written to either the standard
SMF data set or to a user-defined data set.  The records have
a segmented structure and each segment is identified by an
offset, length, and number of segment occurrences.

The segments created are the following:

o  DFSMS configuration segment

o  VCC Control information segment

o  Non-VSAM data set segment

o  The VSAM data set segment

o  The VTOC/volume segment

o  The Hierarchical File System (HFS) segment

o  The HFS Directory entry segment

o  The User defined segment

Each segment may or may not exist on a one-to-one basis for
each record generated. See Figure 1-1 for a graphical
representation of the data flow from VCC.