2. SAMPLE PLANNING APPLICATIONS › 2.8 SMS Resource Planning › 2.8.1 Usage Guidelines

2.8.1 Usage Guidelines

 
The SMS Resource Planning Sample Application provides a
Capacity Planning database file with the database elements
you need for basic tracking, reporting, and forecasting of
the SMS-managed storage usage on your system.  The
information for this application is derived from the CA MICS
VOA Volume Allocation (VCAVOA) and Data Set Allocation
(VCADAA) files.

STORAGE CATEGORIES
 
In the SMS Resource Planning Sample Application, the
application workload group (CAPAPU) data element allows you
to identify your individual SMS storage categories as
workload groups for more meaningful tracking and reporting.
For each SMS storage group, storage class, or management
class, the application stores in the capacity planning
database file measures such as megabytes allocated and used,
and megabytes allocated, used, and available for the entire
measured system.

The SMS Resource Planning Sample Application has four methods
for specifying the manner in which the SMS-managed systems
are grouped: 1) defining each SMS storage group as its own
storage category (CAPAPU = STORNAME), 2) defining each SMS
storage class as its own storage category (CAPAPU =
STORSTGC), 3) defining each SMS management class as its own
storage category (CAPAPU = STORMGTC), and 4) defining your
own SAS statements to create the storage category groups and
set the CAPAPU values accordingly.