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2.2.3 CA MICS StorageMate

While the CA MICS Capacity Planner focuses on the long-term,
"big picture" trends and the MONTHS timespan, CA MICS
StorageMate aims at the short term problems and issues found
mostly in the DETAIL and DAYS timespans.  It provides over 70
reports of interest to storage administrators and their
management about the status of DASD resource consumption.

Some of the reports and graphs available with this product
are the following:

    o    Unmanageable data set report which shows all
         uncataloged data sets and those with other "problem"
         attributes.  Whether preparing for SMS
         implementation or performing periodic clean up on
         part of the DASD farm, this report enables you to
         pinpoint the areas of greatest payoff.  Correcting
         job streams are automatically built for you to
         submit.

    o    Wasted space reports which identify and quantify
         space wasted due to improper BLKSIZEs.  Reports are
         factored by the amount of space allocated so that
         your attention is drawn to the data sets where your
         effort will have the greatest effect.

    o    DASD/HSM data movement plot which shows the change
         in occupancy between active and inactive storage by
         application group.  The daily inventory of both
         primary DASD and migration levels 1 and 2 is
         presented in a useful way which reveals to managers
         and end-users the total megabytes under their
         control across the storage hierarchy and how the
         distribution is changing.

    o    An ACS Test Case Generator which uses a
         statistically valid subset of all sizes and types of
         data sets found in VCA and HSM information areas to
         build test cases for a developmental ACS routine. It
         shows the SMS constructs that will be assigned by
         the ACS code you have developed.