1. OVERVIEW › 1.2 Reporting and Inquiry Facilities

1.2 Reporting and Inquiry Facilities

The StorageMate product provides a number of facilities that
can produce summary, detail, and other reports.  These
reports encompass several aspects of storage management,
including problem management, data set standards, volume
grouping, space availability, SMS migration and monitoring,
performance management, and capacity management.  The names
of the reports that fall into these functional categories are
provided in Section 1.1.

CA MICS StorageMate uses the CA MICS Information Center
Facility (MICF), an interactive inquiry facility of CA MICS,
to produce the reports in either interactive or batch mode.
The reports present the information in tabular and graphic
formats that can be displayed at a terminal, cataloged for
later viewing, or printed on a hard copy device.

Execution of StorageMate reports under the MICF Production
Reporting facility is supported.  Because reports executing
in that facility have no method for obtaining options at
execution time, all StorageMate reports are distributed with
option defaults that will be used when running under the MICF
Production Reporting facility.  Generally, these defaults
tend to request summary reports rather than detail reports,
and provide no special data filtering in terms of selected
sysids, volumes, etc.  For some reports, installation
defaults must be provided.  These defaults are set in the
$STGEXIT options member, and are discussed in Section 3.2 of
this guide.

More detailed information about the reports and facilities is
available in Chapter 4 of this guide.