At the last CA World, we announced how the integration between CA MICS® and CA SMF Director automates daily processing feeds.  This year, learn how a customer has implemented the solution and improved the overall availability of resource management data...

Business transactions today span technologies - the Web to CICS to DB2 then to MQ and back - but some systems monitors only report by technology and only in real-time, creating a disconnect between what you can report to management, and what the business needs to know to deliver solutions....

Your audience is the CIO. You have two minutes each day to convey the status of your mission critical systems and subsystems, such as DB2 and CICS. Can you do it? Yes, you can...

It is sometimes useful to have the JES-assigned job number from your TSO session or batch job, possibly to use with assigning a file name or to display in your log or report in a TITLE statement. This tip demonstrates how to extract the JES JobID and assign a SAS language macro variable for use in a TITLE statement or as part of an output file name, as desired.

IBM's DFSORT team has devoted time and effort to develop sets of DFSORT data source symbols that describe record-layouts for DCOLLECT, ...

Tip: Why make your MICS report users wait for the MONTHLY job execution to get their monthly reports? All the MICS data is there in the MONTHS "00" cycle, available as soon as all SMF/log data...

Consider that the SAS database element ENDTS contains then Ending Timestamp (for an event or interval, depending on the SAS data file), so you can use the DATEPART function...

The TSO batch jobstream shown below will generate a z/OS system's current mount point configuration for zFS and HFS...

Tip: Sometimes SMF data is not cut off exactly at midnight and you may only want a subset of LPARs in the input file for all of yesterday's data. Here is a DFSORT SMF data subset/sort example...

Here are some useful command switches you can provide to WPS in order to influence certain behavior...