1. OVERVIEW › 1.5 Product Prerequisites

1.5 Product Prerequisites

The CA MICS Space Collector Option runs on any release of  z/OS 1.9 or higher.

Both the standard and the HFS VCC Collection programs must
run from an APF-authorized library in order to perform
certain authorized system functions, such as opening system
catalogs, writing records to SMF, and running as
non-swappable.

Since the CA MICS Space Collector Option runs multiple
subtasks for efficiency, it may require a larger region size
than your standard default. The number of subtasks can be
user-controlled to allow flexibility in environments that are
virtual storage constrained.

The VCC HFS Collection batch job must be authorized to read
all of the files created within a Hierarchical File System.
To do this, VCC uses UID 0. Ensure that your External
Security Product allows VCC to switch to UID 0, and has read
access to the Hierarchical File Systems.