1. Introduction › 1.1 Modification Philosophy › 1.1.2 Tailoring CA MICS to the User's Special Needs

1.1.2 Tailoring CA MICS to the User's Special Needs

As discussed in section 1.1, CA MICS provides several
approaches to meeting the special needs of different system
measurement configurations.  The approaches most commonly
used for meeting special requirements are:
Using the Standard CA MICS Parameters

These parameters are used to specify normal system
environmental descriptions to CA MICS. The parms provide for
such things as:

    - Naming and describing the CPUs from which data is
      gathered.

    - Describing the monitoring methods, such as CICS monitor
      used (CMF or Monitor), and whether to use RMF trace
      data or not.

    - How to title reports, and which standard reports to
      generate.
Tailoring the Database

The CA MICS database can be changed by keeping additional
data elements, deleting inappropriate data elements, enabling
or disabling archiving for selected CA MICS files, or
modifying the sequence of certain files.
Adding User Components to the Database

These components may be used to add another input data source
to CA MICS, or create additional files from an existing data
source.
System Modification Using Standard EXITs

The exits may be used to modify the content of existing
CA MICS data elements, to select input records by your own
algorithms, or to introduce your accounting algorithms.
Modification of CA MICS Source Code

Modifications to CA MICS source code implemented outside the
structure of the standard CA MICS modification tools fall
into this category.