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ReportCenter Software Components

ReportCenter uses the following software components:

CA NetMaster Regions

Collect performance data and send it to ReportCenter. One region is designated as the ReportCenter control region. This region performs all report administration tasks.

The CA NetMaster WebCenter interface on the control region is used for all report viewing and report administration tasks.

The 3270 interface is used to set up and verify the data collection for all data regions.

HFS File System

Contains the ReportCenter SMP/E target libraries, which supply the Java code, report definitions, and so on. After you implement ReportCenter, they also contain user data such as the finished report HTML output and the report schedule details.

HFS format files are standard for Java and UNIX System Services. They are physically stored in VSAM files, which are mounted to correspond to a certain directory path.

Note: There are three file systems supported by UNIX System Services: the original Hierarchical File System (HFS), the z/OS File System (zFS), which provides improved performance and reliability, and the Network File System (NFS), which supports sharing files across a network. ReportCenter can use any of these. This guide uses HFS as a generic term to refer to any of these file systems.

Mainframe Java

Provides facilities such as database access and graphics generation. Mainframe Java programs (unlike mainframe C/C++ programs) always run in the USS environment.

Mainframe IP Stack

Supports IP socket connections between the data regions and the Java code (to feed data) and between the control region and the Java code (to request reports).

UNIX System Services

A sub-environment of z/OS where things look like UNIX, but are implemented with z/OS mechanisms. See the IBM website for an introduction.

DB2

An SQL database management system (DBMS) that stores ReportCenter's accumulated performance data.

DB2 JDBC

A DB2 component, resident in USS, that allows Java programs to make DB2 SQL requests.

RRS

A component used by DB2 JDBC for resource serialization.

CA Datacom/AD

Alternative to DB2.

CA Datacom Server

Alternative to DB2 JDBC.

CA Common Services for z/OS

Prerequisite base components for CA Datacom.