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. 
Tech Corner: z/OS
Tech Corner: z/OSTech Corner: z/OS
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: DFSORT symbols available for management reporting
IBM’s DFSORT team has devoted time and effort to develop sets of DFSORT data source symbols that describe record-layouts for DCOLLECT, RACF, RMM, and others. With these symbol definitions, sites can develop comprehensive management reporting processes for the listed data sources. For example, with DCOLLECT, a detail or…
Tip: Display current zFS/HFS mount point configuration
The TSO batch jobstream shown below will generate a z/OS system’s current mount point configuration for zFS and HFS file structures (note the “df” command is case-sensitive):
//RUNOSH EXEC PGM=IKJEFT1B
//SYSEXEC DD DISP=SHR,DSN=SYS1.SBPXEXEC
//SYSTSPRT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSTSIN DD *
OSHELL df
/*
The generated output can be captured and referenced periodically to ensure all expected file structures…
Using DFSORT commands to filter SMF data
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 to filter only SMF type 70 through 79 records for the previous day…
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