1. OVERVIEW › 1.3 Reporting and Inquiry Facilities
1.3 Reporting and Inquiry Facilities
The IMS Analyzer standard reports and online inquiries
provide concise, comprehensive information to help you manage
your IMS environment. The IMS Analyzer provides management
reports, standard analysis reports, and exception reports
that you can either use as delivered or tailor to your
specific requirements. In addition, you may use the CA MICS
Information Center Facility (MICF) or the SAS language
interface to create ad hoc reports.
The following material describes each type of report and
reporting facility.
MANAGEMENT REPORTS
Management reports distributed with the IMS Analyzer provide
a concise graphic or tabular representation of the
installation's processing objectives and how well they have
been met. You define objectives through a series of
parameters, then produce the reports during normal daily,
weekly, or monthly CA MICS processing. You can activate or
deactivate reports for any given timespan (daily, weekly, or
monthly).
The following management objective reports are distributed
with the IMS Analyzer.
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Management
Report Function
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Daily IMS Quantifies the previous day's total IMS
Service Report - service on an hourly basis for each IMS
All Activity system, including short, medium, and
long events. This report can help you
determine whether IMS systems are
meeting established service levels.
Daily IMS Quantifies the previous day's IMS
Service Report - service medium activity on an hourly
Medium Activity basis for each IMS system. This report
can help you determine whether IMS
systems are meeting established service
levels for medium activity.
Daily IMS Quantifies the previous day's IMS
Service Report - service short activity on an hourly
Short Activity basis for each IMS system. This report
can help you determine whether IMS
systems are meeting established service
levels for short activity.
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Management
Report Function
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Daily IMS Outage Quantifies the previous day's IMS outage
Report - on an hourly basis for each IMS system.
Availability This report can help you determine IMS
stability.
Daily IMS Quantifies the previous day's total IMS
Throughput throughput for each IMS system in terms
Report - of commands processed per hour. This
Transactions report allows you to see the overall IMS
system load.
Weekly IMS Quantifies the previous week's total IMS
Service Report - service for each IMS system on an hourly
All Activity basis grouped by day, including short,
medium, and long events.
Weekly IMS Quantifies the previous week's IMS
Service Report - service medium activity for each IMS
Medium Activity system on an hourly basis grouped by
day.
Weekly IMS Quantifies the previous week's IMS
Service Report - service short activity for each IMS
Short Activity system on an hourly basis grouped by
day.
Weekly IMS Quantifies the previous week's IMS
Outage Report - outage for each IMS system on an hourly
Availability basis, grouped by day.
Weekly IMS Quantifies the previous week's total IMS
Throughput throughput for each IMS system, in terms
Report - of transactions processed on an hourly
Transactions basis, grouped by day.
Monthly IMS Quantifies the previous 12 months' total
Service Report - IMS service for each IMS system,
All Activity including short, medium, and long
events, on a zone basis, grouped by
month.
Monthly IMS Quantifies the previous 12 months' IMS
Service Report - medium activity service for each IMS
Medium Activity system, on a zone basis, grouped by
month.
Monthly IMS Quantifies the previous 12 months' IMS
Service Report - short activity service for each IMS
Short Activity system, on a zone basis, grouped by
month.
Monthly IMS Quantifies IMS uptime for each IMS
Availability system, on a zone basis, grouped by
Report month.
Monthly IMS Quantifies total IMS throughput for each
Throughput IMS system in terms of transactions
Report - processed, on a zone basis, grouped by
Transactions month.
STANDARD ANALYSIS REPORTS
The IMS Analyzer standard analysis reports consist of a
series of predefined MICF inquiries. You can invoke these
inquiries on an as-needed basis and you can also use them as
templates for designing similar inquiries. The following
MICF inquiries are distributed with the IMS Analyzer.
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Inquiry Function
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Daily IMS Lists interval duration, calls to
Message Queue dequeue a message, queue buffer reads
Analysis per message, queue buffer writes per
message, and queue buffer I/Os per
message and queue manager waits for
enqueue/ dequeue conflicts, sorted by
system ID, IMS system ID, and end time-
stamp.
Daily IMS Produces a vertical bar chart of
Workload responses per hour for the previous day
for selected system IDs and IMS system
IDs.
Weekly IMS Produces a vertical bar chart of
Workload responses per hour for the last seven
weekdays for selected system IDs and IMS
system IDs.
Monthly IMS Produces a vertical bar chart of
Workload responses per hour for the last six
months by zone for selected system IDs
and IMS system IDs.
8 am - 5 pm IMS Produces a vertical bar chart, by hour,
Service by Type of average response times for short,
medium, and long transactions for
selected system IDs and IMS system IDs.
Daily IMS Produces vertical bar charts of the
Service Report previous day's average response times
for short, medium, and long
transactions, and the percentage of
time responses were less than a
predetermined value, for selected system
IDs and IMS system IDs.
Weekly IMS Produces vertical bar charts, by hour,
Service Report of the previous seven weekdays' average
response times for short, medium, and
long transactions, and the percentage of
time responses were less than a given
value, for selected system IDs and IMS
system IDs.
Monthly IMS Produces vertical bar charts, by zone by
Service Report hour, of the previous six months'
average response times for short,
medium, and long transactions, and the
percentage of time responses were less
than a predetermined value, for selected
system IDs and IMS system IDs.
Daily IMS Produces vertical bar charts of IMS
Availability uptime and downtime per hour for
selected system IDs and IMS system IDs.
The chart is for the previous day for
selected system IDs and IMS system IDs.
Weekly IMS Produces vertical bar charts, by hour,
Availability of the last seven weekdays' IMS uptime
and downtime for selected system IDs and
IMS system IDs.
Monthly IMS Produces vertical bar charts of IMS
Availability uptime and downtime per hour for
selected system IDs and IMS system IDs.
The chart displays responses per hour
for the last six months by zone for
selected system IDs and IMS system IDs.
EXCEPTION ANALYZER REPORTS
The CA MICS Platform provides an Exception Analyzer that
works with CA MICS Data Integration Applications to provide
consolidated reporting of exception conditions across systems
and data sources.
An "exception" is any condition that deviates from the
expected norm, or any missed objective in system performance
or service.
The IMS Analyzer is delivered with several exception tests,
and you can easily add your own. The exception reports
produce increasing levels of detail to address the needs of
different audiences and, when combined with exceptions from
other CA MICS applications, comprise a powerful diagnostic
tool for your organization.
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Report Function
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Exception Lists, in terms of severity, the number
Management of exceptions reported the previous day
Overview for each defined management area, which
helps upper management to quickly assess
the operation's stability.
Management Area Provides an hourly summary of exceptions
Exception for a specific management area (e.g.,
performance or availability), and the
number and severity of each exception
type that occurred in an hour.
Typically, first level management
personnel responsible for defined
management area(s) use this inquiry.
Severity Level Provides an hourly summary of exceptions
Exception for a given severity level, which allows
quick assessment of the types of
exceptions in each level. It gives
first-level managers, performance
analysts, and system programmers an
integrated report of problems that may
have affected the installation in any
given hour.
Detail Exception Provides a detailed list, in order of
occurrence, of detected exceptions. You
may produce this report online using
various selection criteria such as date
and time range, severity level,
management area, etc., to obtain the
necessary background detail for
effective analysis of the reported
exceptions.
AD HOC REPORTING FACILITIES
The specific types of information needed to manage a large IS
organization change daily. CA MICS addresses these
requirements with interactive capabilities that allow fast
response to the most complex requests for information. The
interactive capabilities are:
o The CA MICS Information Center Facility (MICF) - MICF is a
panel-oriented productivity tool that allows you to access
information in the CA MICS Database. When you define
input, selection criteria, and report options, MICF
fulfills your request by executing the program either in
batch or interactive mode. Then, according to your
specifications, MICF prints the results of your request,
displays the results at your terminal, or catalogs the
results for later viewing.
o The CA MICS Workstation Facility (MWF) provides an online
environment in which the SAS System can be used both
interactively or in batch mode. The SAS language is a
powerful fourth generation language that provides easy
data manipulation and statistical analysis. It enhances
your staff's analytical capabilities and improves the
quality of their decision-making. SAS also supports
coding facilities for programmers who are conducting
extensive analysis or designing new reports for IS
business applications.
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