VCA OPTIONS Statement
The OPTIONS statement is optional. If coded, both operands must be coded.
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OPTIONS sysid default_duration
The OPTIONS statement is optional. If coded, both operands must be coded.
Valid values for sysid are 4-character SMF SYSIDs of VCA systems at your site or an asterisk, *. The value of sysid must match an SMF SYSID coded in prefix.MICS.PARMS(SYSID).
Valid values for default_duration are integers, from 1 to 999, representing hours. This value is used to compute DASD storage occupancy for a data sets if VCC does not generate an indication that a particular data set was processed previously. For data sets previously processed, the value for default_duration is computed by the VCA input format routine from the current and previous sample times recorded by VCC.
This operand allows you to specify a different default DURATION for each SYSID being processed by VCA. If your site allows VCA to accept data from any SMF SYSID and if the duration between VCA runs is a constant, use the statement format:
OPTIONS * nn
*
any SYSID
nn
duration in hours
If your site restricts the data coming into VCA or if the duration between VCC runs is not a constant, code individual OPTIONS statements for each SMF SYSID. OPTIONS statements must be grouped together.
The examples below illustrate valid and invalid VCAOPS coding:
Valid Example | Invalid Example |
ACCOUNTING DETAIL | ACCOUNTING DETAIL |
BCSREQUIRED YES | OPTIONS SYS1 12 |
OPTIONS SYS1 12 | BCSREQUIRED YES |
OPTIONS TST1 24 | OPTIONS TST1 24 |
OPTIONS REMT 12 | OPTIONS REMT 12 |
The example on the right causes improper code to be generated during the VCAPGEN process and unpredictable results during DAILY processing because the OPTIONS statements are not adjacent to each other.