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3.1 Management Objective Reports

The IMS reports are produced on a daily, weekly, and monthly
basis by Information Area (e.g., IMS) as a standard output of
the CA MICS reporting process. A separate set of reports is
produced for each unique computer system applicable to the
Information Areas.  In addition, you can always produce
reports that aggregate systems.  In this way,
multiprocessing, loosely coupled, or other aggregates can be
reported as required.

A report series, such as daily, reports the installation's
progress against a management objective (e.g., provide a 4
second response 92% of the time for short IMS transactions)
as a one-page bar chart that quantifies performance against
management's pre-determined objective.

The reports are produced using the CA MICS database. The
criteria used to define the objectives are installation
defined.  The user can modify the standard reports to produce
special data center-specific reports using the database and
the standard CA MICS-SAS interfaces and language facilities.

This section identifies and describes the Management
Objective reports provided in the IMS Information Area.

The reports are produced on a daily, weekly, and monthly
basis and are described in that order within this section.

Options are provided to enable the user to specify data
selection (time, zones, etc.), define the applicable
objective values, and specify the scales of the graphic
report representations.  Each option is described in line
with the reports to which it pertains, and is fully explained
in section 3.1.4.1, Report Options.

The options available for producing the IMS Management
Objective Reports are shown below:

  Hourly Selection Range for Daily Reports:

  The start and end hours of the day to be included in the
  Daily IMS Reports.  It is suggested that the hours be set
  to include the entire day (00 23).

  Hourly Selection Range for Weekly Reports:

  The start and end hours of the day to be included in the
  Weekly IMS Reports.  It is suggested that the hours be set
  to only include the prime-time hours (e.g., 08 16).

  Total Response Objective:

  The percentage of all IMS responses that were satisfied
  within a specified number of seconds to reflect the
  installation's response objective for total IMS activity
  (e.g., 90% within 15 seconds).

  Short Response Objective:

  The percentage of short IMS responses that were satisfied
  within a specified number of seconds to reflect the
  installation's response objective for short IMS activity
  (e.g., 96% within 4 seconds).

  Medium Response Objective:

  The percentage of medium IMS responses that were satisfied
  within a specified number of seconds to reflect the
  installation's response objective for medium IMS activity
  (e.g., 94% within 6 seconds).

  Hourly IMS Outage Limits:

  The target number of uptime minutes per hour, generally set
  to 60, and the downtime objective per hour, which is
  generally set to 0 minutes.

  Zone Selection for Monthly Reporting:

  The zone or range of zones that are to be included in the
  Monthly IMS Reports.  Normally all zones should be reported
  and therefore the range should be 1 to 9.  The reports can,
  however, be limited to only the range of zones required.

  Monthly Availability Hours:

  The number of hours that IMS is targeted to be available in
  any given month for the specified zones.

  Monthly IMS Transaction Rate:

  The target and maximum number of transactions processed per
  zone within month by IMS.  The target amount is used as a
  reference line on the graph; the maximum is used to set the
  maximum value on the graph's vertical axis.

The IMS report options, which are defined as SAS MACROs,
should be placed in the source member #IMSMOBJ in the
prefix.MICS.USER.SOURCE library after the %INCLUDE
SOURCE(#IMSMOBJ), which sets the defaults for these MACROs.

The SAS source code for the IMS Management  Objective Reports
is contained in three members in prefix.MICS.USER.SOURCE.

    DYIMSMBO - Daily IMS Management Objective Reports
    WKIMSMBO - Weekly IMS Management Objective Reports
    MNIMSMBO - Monthly IMS Management Objective Reports

The descriptive material is explained in the following
sections:

    1 - Daily IMS Management Objective Reports
    2 - Weekly IMS Management Objective Reports
    3 - Monthly IMS Management Objective Reports
    4 - IMS Report Options