PRODUCT SHEET agility made possible CA MICS Resource Management r12.7 CA MICS Resource Management (CA MICS) is a comprehensive IT resource utilization management system designed to fulfill the information needs of today s enterprise IT infrastructure providers. Your IT personnel can trust CA MICS to help satisfy their financial, storage, capacity planning and system performance management challenges. Product overview The task of managing resource utilization encompasses the entire IT enterprise, which means you must capture and analyze huge volumes of data from disparate platforms. Capacity planners and performance analysts can easily be overburdened with the challenge. The solution is CA MICS Resource Management, an effective IT resource management tool that validates, consolidates, analyzes and manages the data from multiple sources, helping to free your technical staff to focus on solving problems and analyzing their systems. Benefits IT organizations are required to deliver ever-increasing levels of system availability to support business demands and increasing numbers of end users, who place variable and increasing demands on IT resources. Capacity planning helps you provide that you have the resources you need, when you need them. Performance problems and availability issues can result in lost customers, fines and penalties; capacity constraints can have devastating impacts on your business. In the fast-paced business world, having actionable information at your fingertips is critical to your success. CA MICS manages, transforms and presents data to help satisfy the myriad needs of your organization.
Product features Key capabilities CA MICS Resource Management provides: CA MICS database, an integrated data source for capacity planning, performance analysis and cost allocation scenarios Data integration analyzers for CICS, IMS, DB2, tape, CA IDMS, Measureware, MQSeries, network, space, system reliability, VAX/VMS, VM/CMS, VSE/Power and WebSphere are provided as options, with new analyzers created as needed. The new tape option supports both tape library and virtual tape systems. The Batch and Operations, Hardware and System Control Program and TSO analyzers are provided with the base product. Management Support Applications, which use the CA MICS data to provide decision support to many functional areas: CA MICS resource management accounting & chargeback option CA MICS capacity planner option CA MICS performance manager option CA MICS Information Center Facility (MICF), a 3270-based data manipulation tool. CA MICS Q&R Workstation, a workstation-based, ad-hoc query, reporting, graphing and analysis tool. Comprehensive and scalable solutions to process massive quantities of raw data with minimized resource demand. Automatic summarization that provides data at various levels of granularity, supporting all your reporting needs. Flexible installation and tailoring to match your unique processing and business needs. Archive facilities that automate data management. CA MICS Reference Library, an online reference that includes product documentation and resource management analysis methodology techniques, which may be viewed through a web browser. CA MICS has adopted key features that are designed to simplify your use of CA MICS and enable your staff to install, configure and maintain it more effectively and quickly. Electronic Software Delivery (ESD): The ESD enables you to install CA MICS using standard utilities without requiring you to reconstitute a tape cartridge. This new procedure helps speed installation and facilitates a consistent install process across CA Technologies mainframe products, shortening the learning curve for mainframe staff. Best Practices Guide: This guide provides information on CA MICS installation, initial configuration and deployment to shorten the learning curve for staff that is responsible for the installation and management of this product. 2
New in r12.7 CA MICS Resource Management has been enhanced to address customer requests and to support IBM software and hardware releases. CA MICS batch and operations analyzer component (SMF analyzer). In addition to the support for z/os 1.13, data elements TYPRUN=COPY Specified (JOBCOPY) and TYPRUN=SCAN Specified (JOBSCAN) are now accumulated rather than retained. CA MICS analyzer option for CICS enhancements: CA MICS Code Simplified. To ensure MICS is operating as efficiently processing code that is no longer relevant is removed. Processing was also streamlined via the consolidation of SAS INPUT statements. CICS transaction server release 4.2. New data elements have been added to both the CICS Application Unit Activity (CICCAU) and CICS User Activity (CICCSU) files to support the new SMF record type 110 subtype 01 performance class metrics. Detailed data element information is available in the data dictionary. CICS transaction gateway release 8.0. New gateway daemon statistics data elements have been added to the Gateway Server Activity (GSA) file in support of CICS transaction gateway release 8.0. CA MICS analyzer option for DB2: Performance has been improved including improved handling of duplicate observations; improved sorting of DB2 package/dbrm activity file; process changes that resulted in the elimination of now unnecessary sorts; enhanced CA MICS DB2 format routine and code optimization. Added support for workfile storage metrics including 21 new metrics to the DB2 database activity file. Compressed SMF record support. With DB2 release 10.1 users now have the ability to create compressed SMF 100 and 101 records. The CA MICS DB2 option has been updated to automatically decompress these records. CA MICS hardware and SCP analyzer (RMF analyzer). CPU reporting enhancements for z/os Systems Running as z/vm guests. New hiperdispatch indicator in HARCPU, HARIPU, HARLPC, and HARVPA files. CA MICS analyzer option for CA IDMS. With release r18 of CA IDMS, support has been added for a job name for CV region. Transaction Start Time Stamp (TRANSTS) and Transaction End Time Stamp (TRANETS) common data elements have been added to provide greater date and time stamp precision. Improved performance with The NODUP EQUALS parameter values improvements. IMS version 12 support. Support has been added for processing IMS Version 12 log data in the CA MICS analyzer option for IMS. Four new data elements, ISUTMCP, ISUMXCP, 3
ISUTMZAP and ISUMXZAP, have been added to contain the amount of CPU time consumed by transactions. The new data elements enumerate the CPU time accumulated on the CP and zaap engines. A new IMSOPS parameter, FASTWFI/NOFASTWFI, has been added to facilitate immediate flushing of WFI transactions. A new IMSOPS parameter, USECPUOLD, has been added to allow users to force the use of the old transaction CPU time value. RACFUSID and USER fields translate to upper case characters from lower case characters by default. A new IMSOPS parameter, FOLDUID/NOFOLDUID has been added to control whether or not the RACFUSID field is converted to upper case. New out-of-the-box CA MICS Q&R reports. The CA MICS query library has been updated to include 6 additional reports as a result of CA MICS support for SMF type 113 records. This library includes over 50 Q&R Workstation sample queries that process and report on data from the DB2, CICS, MQS, RMF, TAPE, and VM components. These sample queries are designed to provide out-of-the-box value for CA MICS customers by generating useful graphics showing resource utilization, workload activity, processor configuration, and other metrics that are important to monitor at modern data centers. CA MICS Q&R component new features: Removal of the need to wait 60 seconds before re-running a query. Element lists refresh performance improvement. Relative date selection in the query data filter step. The options are previous day, previous n days, previous week, previous month. Export a Q&R query macro directly to a mainframe partitioned data set (PDS). This facilitates inclusion in a MICF reporting job stream. Ability to select template and enter User ID and password information in support of the new Q&R mainframe server security features. Ability to directly view MICF inquiry output generated from a production or user reporting job stream in a HFS/zFS directory structure compatible with CA MICS Q&R workstation. This change is required to support the Q&R integration feature delivered with BAS7683. Ability to choose the application for viewing log files in Q&R query. Q&R charting enhancements with features for chart customization. Q&R mainframe server enhancements. A new Q&R mainframe security model has been introduced to provide user level security and the Q&R mainframe server can now run multiple Q&R queries concurrently. Enhanced Q&R distributed server administration. In this release you will be able to perform Q&R distributed server administration activities quickly and easily. New Q&R options editor. A new Q&R options editor program is provided to allow updates to many Q&R settings allowing the user the ability to access and update settings that previously could only be maintained by editing an.ini files. SAS 9.3 support. CA MICS has been enhanced to recognize SAS version 9.3 support 4
Support for SMF type 113 records. Support is provided for the SMF type 113 subtype 2 hardware capacity, reporting, and statistics interval record generated by the IBM Hardware Instrumentation Services (HIS) CPU Measurement Facility (CPU MF) CA MICS tape analyzer option. Support has been added for IBM virtualization engine TS7700 series statistical data format v2.0. CA MICS analyzer option for VM/CMS. z/vm 6.2 support has been enabled. VSE/POWER version 9.1 support. The CA MICS Analyzer Option for VSE/Power now supports version 9.1 WebSphere MQ for z/os V7.1. The CA MICS analyzer option for MQSeries has been enhanced with new data elements that are available with V7.1 z/os 1.13 support. The CA MICS hardware and SCP analyzer (RMF analyzer) and CA MICS batch and operations analyzer (SMF analyzer) have been enhanced to support z/os 1.13. Comprehensive information store CA MICS Resource Management is designed to collect and transform all of your infrastructure performance and capacity data, creating a robust capacity database to help you address performance, capacity and financial management challenges. Raw data becomes actionable information, supplying both technical and business units with the metrics they need to utilize IT resources more efficiently and effectively. Doing more with less. Customers are faced with this challenge every day; it means managing increasing business volumes and functions with fewer IT staff and the hardware and software you already have. CA MICS Resource Management makes it possible to work smarter, not harder, by exploiting automation and providing analysis tools and customized reporting to present the information you need to make critical business decisions and manage your dynamic IT environment. The discipline of resource management supports such ITIL management process as Capacity Management, Financial Management, Service Level Management, Availability Management and more. As companies extend their reach to their customers via the Web, performance management becomes a critical component. Applications must not just be available, they must also be highly responsive. To understand historical trends, manage present day performance and plan for future demands, a robust resource management database is essential CA MICS Resource Management is that database. But it is more. CA MICS Resource Management provides both the data AND the tools to perform the wide range of tasks and processes as indicated above. With enterprises under continuous pressure to control costs and improve profitability, capacity upgrades must be defensible; having immediate access to the right information is critical for preparing an accurate capacity plan and establishing cost justification. Mapping business processes to IT services and resources enables more accurate capacity planning and performance management. You need easy access to historical data to characterize workloads, spot trends and forecast growth as well as to understand and resolve performance problems. 5
The CA Technologies advantage CA Technologies has 35 years of recognized expertise in robust, reliable, scalable, and secure enterprise-class IT management software. CA MICS is a key component of the CA Technologies initiative to change the way the mainframe is managed forever by helping you maximize the value of CA Technologies mainframe products and by providing a simplified experience and innovative solutions designed to deliver value more quickly and flexibly. As IT environments become larger and more complex, the volume of data needed to manage them also increases. For most organizations, analyzing the raw data produced by each server or other resource no longer helps them manage their cross-system, cross-application enterprise. Instead, they need a scalable solution that helps them consolidate, correlate and analyze this data at the process/ transaction, system and business process level. The solution must simplify management of the data, improve visualization and offer streamlined analysis capabilities to the wide audience needing to access the data. CA MICS provides database and tools to help meet this need by delivering one of the most comprehensive and scalable resource utilization management system available. Whether you are managing end user performance, planning for future capacity, managing finances, or controlling storage demands, you need easy access to enterprise data. CA MICS delivers it, in purpose-designed graphics or tables. Copyright 2012 CA. All rights reserved. IBM, z/os, CICS, DB2, IMS, AIX, WebSphere, WebSphere MQ, MQSeries, VM, z/vse and z/vm are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both. ITIL is a Registered Trade Mark, and a Registered Community Trade Mark of the Office of Government Commerce, and is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. All trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. This document is for your informational purposes only. CA assumes no responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of the information. To the extent permitted by applicable law, CA provides this document as is without warranty of any kind, including, without limitation, any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or noninfringement. In no event will CA be liable for any loss or damage, direct or indirect, from the use of this document, including, without limitation, lost profits, business interruption, goodwill or lost data, even if CA is expressly advised in advance of the possibility of such damages. CS2505_0612