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Integrating with Other Products

This product was primarily designed to manage the storing of SMF data for long-term use on magnetic tape or DASD. Additionally, it can be used in conjunction with Storage Management products such as CA ASM2 or IBM's DFSMS. This is accomplished by using storage devices under management of the Storage Management product for the SMF history files. If this is done, the maintaining of the SMF data for long term use becomes the responsibility of the Storage Management product. For example, the primary pool can use DASD or optical disk storage devices managed by DFSMS. Storage management attributes defined to DFSMS for the SMF history files determine when these data sets are archived, backed up to another medium, or scratched. Long term storage of the SMF data is dependent upon the Management Class attributes in DFSMS, and not on the retention period or expiration date values defined to CA SMF Director.

This product can be used with other performance management and resource accounting products such as CA JARS or CA MICS.