3. REPORTS


The CA MICS Space Analyzer provides several reporting
facilities that allow you to monitor your DASD environment
using either tabular reports, printer graphs, or color
graphics.  These reports can be executed in either batch or
interactive mode, and the resulting output can be printed or
displayed at your terminal.

The reports we provide are categorized as MICF standard
analysis, MICF user inquiry, CA MICS management objective,
and CA MICS exception reports.

The MICF standard analysis reports are a series of MICF (CA
MICS Information Center Facility) inquiries provided with the
CA MICS Space Analyzer.  We design these reports to provide
the information most commonly needed to effectively manage
your DASD resources.  This requires little effort on your
part to produce these reports, as a large number of options
are available that allow you to tailor the output to meet
your needs.

MICF user inquiries are printer reports and color graphics
that you compose yourself using MICF.  These MICF inquiries
produce meaningful reports using your CA MICS database and
provide you with the flexibility of coding and saving your
own reports.  This facility allows you to create reports
suited to your own needs with a minimum of effort.

You can produce CA MICS management reports through normal CA
MICS processing and provide a concise graphic or tabular
representation of your processing objectives and how well
they have been met.

You can also produce CA MICS exception reports part of normal
CA MICS processing. They contain an integrated and itemized
list of the problems impacting your effectiveness in terms of
availability, service, workload, standards, and performance.
Exception reports are discussed in more detail in Chapter 4
of this guide.

The remainder of this chapter describes the operation and
function of the MICF Standard Analysis reports provided with
the CA MICS Space Analyzer. The other types of reports
mentioned above are described in other chapters or in other
CA MICS documentation.
The MICF standard analysis reports provide three levels of
analysis of DASD installation data: Overview, Summary and
Detail.

Overview reporting provides a short summary of key areas of
Space Management.  The entire DASD installation is summarized
on a device-type basis.  The resulting picture gives the DASD
manager a concise view of who is using DASD space, how much
is being used, and how effectively and efficiently it is
being used.

Summary reporting provides a more detailed look at the
account code and volume level.  The accounts identified in
the Overview Report as the largest consumers of DASD space
can be listed to see who has allocated the DASD space.  You
can determine how the space is allocated over a set of
specified volumes from the Volume Summary Report.

The last level of reporting is detail reporting.  The Detail
Data Set Reports for non-VSAM and VSAM data sets provide
descriptive information about the data sets you specify.  The
information includes data set type, location, and space
allocation characteristics.  The Volume Track Map Report
provides a detailed layout of where data set extents, free
areas, and the VTOC are located on the volume.  This
information is useful in determining data set placement.

A new report is added to the detail reporting section that
provides information about HFS file/directory of your choice.
The information includes file/directory name, userid,
groupid, create, access/modify timestamp, and allocation in
kilobytes.

MICF standard analysis reports provide information about
specific areas of DASD management.  You can generate these
reports from the entire database or from a specified subset
of the data.  This flexibility allows you to isolate
particular volumes or data sets.

The reports and the sections that describe them are:

    Overview report
      1 - DASD Installation Overview Report

    Summary reports
      2 - Account Summary Report
      3 - Volume Summary Report

    Detail reports
      4 - Detail Data Set Report
      5 - Detail VSAM Data Set Report
      6 - Volume Track Map Report
      7 - HFS Detail File/Directory Report

    Using reports
      8 - Using the MICF Standard Analysis Reports