System Accounting/VSE is an integrated package for monitoring and reporting on activity and performance in VSEⁿ and CICS.
System Accounting/VSE generates reports indicating the usage and efficiency of your CICS and VSEⁿ systems. This detailed information allows systems administrators to improve capacity planning, provide accurate job accounting data for departmental and user billing, and pinpoint areas for performance improvement.
Data collection
Efficient and comprehensive data collection replaces standard VSEⁿ and POWER accounting routines with more detailed information; data is collected with minimal overhead and stored, first temporarily on the POWER account file and then internally for later presentation
Reporting
Summary and detailed reports for both VSEⁿ and CICS provide an immediate view of system usage and performance and are also available in graphical formats; users can also extract data to create their own reports
Performance optimization
Tuning information, together with partition and I/O usage reports, and detailed batch reporting, including resource usage and contention, all offer insights that allow work schedules and programs to be amended to maximize efficiency and minimize costs
Capacity planning
Long-term resource and system usage information is gathered, to support capacity planning
Job accounting
Job accounting reports at user and departmental level allow usage based billing and cross-charging