PRODUCT SHEET CA JARS Resource Accounting for z/VSE CA JARS® Resource Accounting for z/VSE CA JARS® resource accounting for z/VSE (CA JARS Resource Accounting for z/VSE) is a comprehensive IT resource utilization management system designed to fulfill the information needs of today’s enterprise it infrastructure providers. IT professionals trust CA JARS Resource Accounting for z/VSE to address their capacity planning, system performance and chargeback management challenges. Overview IT organizations are being asked to provide an unprecedented level of system availability while controlling cost and improving profitability. Proper planning is necessary to avoid overwhelming current computing capacity, and requests for additional resources require cost justification. Performance problems reflected in missed service level requirements can have severe financial impact on your business. Business value With its comprehensive data reduction and reporting facilities, CA JARS Resource Accounting for z/VSE delivers the information required by capacity planners and performance managers so that they can: Accurately report on current workloads Identify trends Forecast growth Understand and resolve problems CA JARS Resource Accounting for z/VSE Features Key features Consolidate and Analyze IT utilization data with CA JARS Resource Accounting for z/VSE Capacity planners and operational analysts can be overburdened with the volume of utilization data coming from disparate systems. They require an effective IT resource management solution that validates, consolidates, analyzes and manages this data. CA JARS Resource Accounting for z/VSE provides “out-of-the-box” support for delivering detailed information on your z/VSE system. The data is maintained in an uncomplicated format that can be accessed by two report writers. An extensive set of reports for performing accounting and chargeback or for analyzing performance is also provided. CA JARS Resource Accounting for z/VSE offers a comprehensive solution to the integrated resource management needs of today’s IT organization. It manages and integrates capacity, performance, accountability and financial information, enabling you to answer strategic questions regarding the utilization of the current IT environment. Availability and analysis of such information empowers you to deliver effective IT services. CA JARS Resource Accounting for z/VSE provides fast, easy access to facts and information that demonstrate the effectiveness of IT and its contribution to corporate goals. Key Capabilities Enhanced VSE/power accounting data: CA JARS Resource Accounting for z/VSE obtains information on z/VSE resource consumption by processing VSE/POWER accounting records. Supplemental accounting information can be obtained by using the CA JARS Resource Accounting for z/VSE job accounting interface program, which calculates additional data not supplied by the IBM supervisor for each job step and appends that data to the job step execution record created by VSE/POWER. These additional fields include paging statistics, deactivation time and working set statistics. 2 CA JARS Resource Accounting for z/VSE Checkpoint data: The CA JARS Resource Accounting for z/VSE data collection component can be tailored to create step checkpoint records for long-running jobs and store them in the CA JARS Resource Accounting for z/VSE account file. The checkpoint feature prevents loss of accounting data in the event of system failure and helps CA JARS Resource Accounting for z/VSE produce more accurate utilization statistics for these applications. Measured workload reporting tool: Collects system utilization data and produces an approved Sub-Capacity Report that can be used to support the CA Technologies usage-based Measured Workload Pricing. Consolidate data: The CA JARS Resource Accounting for z/VSE data reduction component performs data validation and reduction. Data can be consolidated from VSE/POWER records, CA JARS Resource Accounting for z/VSE period files and ICCF, CA IDMS™ and VM interface files. CA JARS Resource Accounting for z/VSE reformats records into a common format: the JD62VSE database. When users select PERIOD processing, CA JARS Resource Accounting for z/VSE automatically organizes the data into period files. Data reporting: The CA JARS Resource Accounting for z/VSE data reporting component consists of the CA JARS Resource Accounting for z/VSE Report Writer, which executes during the data reduction phase, and the CA JARS Resource Accounting for z/VSE WIZARD report writer, which reports on files created by data reduction. Out-of-the-box reporting: CA JARS Resource Accounting for z/VSE offers several predefined reports that can be created as part of the daily data reduction processing. — Multiprogramming Activity Analysis (MPA) reports provide an overall view of system performance over a given time period; e.g., daily or weekly. The following reports are available: Daily Performance Summary Concurrency Graphs Partition Utilization Graphs 3 CA JARS Resource Accounting for z/VSE — System utilization reports provide an overall picture of activity within the z/VSE environment. They focus on your installation’s hardware utilization for a specific time interval. Examples include: — CPU Activity Graphs Computer Utilization Summaries Resource Utilization Summaries Detail job or program activity analysis reports highlight specific resource utilization statistics by job or program name. These reports identify the jobs or programs that consume the largest percentage of resources in your installation. Each report is ordered by one of the following resources: Number of times used CPU time EXCPs Paging I/O index CPU page rate User-defined reports: User-designed reports can display detail, summary and exception system information. The CA JARS Resource Accounting for z/VSE WIZARD also can produce ranked record reports, calendar reports and plot reports, which are graphic representations of numeric values. A complete set of precoded reports, which produce a wide variety of reports on your accounting data, is provided on the distribution tape for use with the CA JARS Resource Accounting for z/VSE WIZARD and the CA JARS Resource Accounting for z/VSE Report Writer. Period processing: Period processing is a powerful methodology offered by CA JARS Resource Accounting for z/VSE to maintain a historical database of your performance and accounting data. Each daily processing cycle accumulates daily activity to the period-to-date file. At the end of this processing cycle, typically at the end of the month, CA JARS Resource Accounting for z/VSE creates an end-of-period file that can be used for permanent archival purposes. Period processing enables you to take advantage of the following features: 4 CA JARS Resource Accounting for z/VSE — Shift splitting: You can define the beginning of the logical day and the start of each shift, up to four shifts. Records spanning a shift are physically split, with all split fields prorated to the amount of elapsed time belonging to each shift. By splitting records on shift boundaries, data falling within an exact shift and, therefore, period boundaries are output to the period files. — Full day reporting: Period processing automatically produces a daily file that contains one complete day's data. Extra data that should be reported on the following day is stored in the period-to-date file and is retrieved and reported on the following day. — One pass processing: The historical file created by period processing eliminates the need to merge files through extra runs to produce a file containing a complete period's data. Associate costs with resources: Accounting records state resource consumption in physical units like seconds, records and SIOs. CA JARS Resource Accounting for z/VSE stores accounting information in those units and also supports cost tables that enable you to associate costs with physical resource units. With cost tables, you can set up a cost structure that meets your site's unique requirements and adjust rates within the cost tables to implement a chargeback strategy that best meets your needs. Delivery approach CA Services provides a portfolio of mainframe services delivered through CA Technologies internal staff and a network of established partners chosen to help you achieve a successful deployment and get the desired business results as quickly as possible. Our standard service offerings are designed to speed deployment and accelerate the learning curve for your staff. CA Technologies field-proven mainframe best practices and training help you lower risk, improve use/adoption and ultimately align the product configuration to your business requirements. 5 CA JARS Resource Accounting for z/VSE Benefits CA JARS Resource Accounting for z/VSE is a component of CA’s integrated z/VSE management suite. As such, it contributes to your ability to optimize the performance, reliability and efficiency of your IT environment. CA JARS Resource Accounting for z/VSE can help your organization achieve the CA Enterprise IT Management (EITM) vision to unify and simplify your management of IT The CA Technologies advantage CA Technologies has 30 years of recognized expertise in robust, reliable, scalable, and secure enterprise-class IT management software. CA JARS Resource Accounting for z/VSE is a key component of the Mainframe 2.0 initiative from CA Technologies to change the way the mainframe is managed forever by helping you maximize the value of our mainframe products and by providing a simplified experience and innovative solutions that deliver value quickly and flexibly. Copyright © 2011 CA. All rights reserved. All trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. z/VSE, DB2, IMS, CICS, COBOL, PL/I and z/OS are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both. This document is for your informational purposes only. CA assumes no responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of the information. 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