Abstract:
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 while at the same time reducing system overhead. …
SBBWorks, Inc. 
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Get Your Data Faster…and More Easily – A User Success Story – CA World 2010 presentation
Business Centric Performance Reporting with CA MICS: Giving the Business What it Wants – CA World 2008 presentation
Abstract:
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…
Getting to the Point: Communication Enterprise-wide IT Status Effectively on the Mainframe – CA World 2007 presentation
Abstract:
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. Join us as Scott Barry of SBBWorks, Inc., shares related real world scenarios. He’ll offer…
Tip: How can I get my JES job number (JobID) in a SAS or WPS z/OS session?
It is sometimes useful to have a SAS language macro variable with 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…
Tip: Generating MICS monthly reports in the DAILY’s DAY500 step
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 has been processed for the prior period, right?
Below is a DATA step example…
Tip: SAS coding techniques for using relative date values instead hardcoded dates
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 in a DATA step (using an IF or WHERE statement), or possibly using the DATEPART in a PROC step WHERE…
Tip: A few coding reasons to get to SAS 9.2
Here’s another productivity reason to get to SAS 9.2 – you can now use a SAS file prefix, like BATPGM: on the SET statement – an example is shown below. SAS will identify what candidate data library members are available and includes those files in your SET…
Q: How can I take advantage of the MICS/SAS formats used with MICS Accounting to display Invoice Category and COMPCODE info?
A: MICS Accounting maintains a series of SAS formats that are used, primarily by MICS SAS code, but they are also available for user-developed SAS code. The following SAS formats can be used in SAS or in MICF for display Accounting-related descriptive information:
Format – Description
$ACTCMPF – Computation…
Tip: Sample MICS/SAS programming techniques for subsetting input data
The examples listed below use the SAS INTNX function and using the MICS-supplied PREVWK macro for automatically determining the previous week date range. Both of these approaches work without manual intervention, such as to set a SAS literal string or other numeric value. Additional MICS and SAS coding techniques…
Tip: CICS Transaction Resource Usage and Chargeback Considerations
With CICS Version 4, IBM moved (and simplified) the activation of the CMF monitor so that the CICS SIT member must specify the following parameters:
MN=ON,
MNPER=ON,
MNFREQ=hhmmss,
Without the parameter MNPER=ON, the CICS default settings (i.e., MN=OFF) will result in no CMF performance (transaction) data being generated yet some CICS Statistics records…
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