Using the CA Tape Encryption GUI

This section contains the following topics:

CA GMI

Standard CA GMI Features

Install and Configure CA GMI

How You Use the CA Vantage Windows Client GUI

CA GMI

CA GMI is the GUI that allows you to view and manage information about storage management product activity, including CA Tape Encryption. It consists of the Windows Client GUI, which interfaces with a z/OS server component to allow access to basic z/OS server functions.

CA GMI is included with many CA products. If you already have one of the following products installed, you do not need to install the CA GMI again for CA Tape Encryption.

• CA 1
• CA ASTEX
• CA  SRM
• CA CREWS
• CA Disk
• CA IDMS/DB
• CA MasterCat
• CA TLMS
• CA Vantage
• CA Vtape

For more information about using CA GMI, see the CA Vantage Windows Client User Guide.

Note: To review the most current list of products that have recently included CA GMI, select “SupportConnect” at http://ca.com/support, then the “Product Home Pages” option, and select the product “CA Vantage Storage Resource Manager GMI.”

Standard CA GMI Features

CA GMI provides a rich set of standard features for working with all of these products. These features include the following:

• Ability to connect to several z/OS hosts at the same time, with separate views for each host, or all hosts consolidated into a single view. Access to objects and actions on each z/OS host is controlled by the z/OS security system on that host (CA ACF2, CA Top Secret, or IBM Security Server RACF)
• Table views of all data, customizable with the ease of point-and-click
• Graphical views of any numeric data, easily customized, with a wide range of two-dimensional and three-dimensional features
• Filtering and sorting on any field
• Aggregate functions (total, average, min and max)
• Scaling (KB, MB, GB, and so on) and color coding features
• Drill-down feature to zoom to related object data
• Wizards for simple or complex summaries
• Reporting features for customized and printed reports
• Multiple output formats, including:
  • Web page
  • Email
  • PDF document
  • Excel
  • Microsoft Access Database (MDB)
• Schedulers for producing and sending report output on a regular basis
• JCL management (edit, model, drag and drop, substitute, submit, schedule)