2. ACCESSING CA MICS StoageMate › 2.4 CA MICS Update Schedule

2.4 CA MICS Update Schedule

There are two basic methods of collecting storage data with
the VCC scan job:  (1) run it daily during off hours or, (2)
run it periodically during the day to get finer granularity
of information.  For example, some installations combine the
two methods, scanning temporary storage pools hourly and
scanning permanent VSAM, DB2, and QSAM pools at midnight.

If your installation runs multiple scans in a day or
processes multiple days within one cycle (for example,
process Saturday and Sunday scans together), there is a
customization option you should be aware of.  This has to do
with the way the product deals with repetitively collected
data.  For example, if you scan your temporary storage pool
at the start of each of your three daily shifts, each cycle
will contain three observations for each volume within this
pool.  Attempts to use this data with StorageMate reports
will produce results showing three entries for each of these
volumes.  To avoid this problem, CA MICS StorageMate provides
an option that can be set to eliminate this repetitively
collected data.  This option will either accept the latest
time found in the input data and ignore all others, or it
will use the latest time found for each individual volume or
data set.  The default option distributed with CA MICS
StorageMate does not allow repetitively collected data to be
checked.  If you have repetitively collected data residing in
each data cycle, as described above, you must make a change
during the installation of the product to avoid having data
repeated in your reports.  Section 3.2 of this guide gives
the details on how to make the change.