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Intelligent default rules

Universal Information Exchange (UIE) is designed to provide ease of use, enabling your to use it without extensive prior training or knowledge of your operating environment.

However, UIE is also designed to provide flexibility of use, enabling you to use your knowledge of your environment:

  • To provide information that cannot be obtained from SMF and RMF data
  • To customize your output by defining your applications, workloads, and so on

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These two design features, ease of use and flexibility, can conflict with each other:

  • Flexibility means defining multiple commands with many parameters
  • Ease of use requires as few commands as possible

We resolved this conflict by using intelligent default rules that are automatically modified based on:

  • The nature and quality of data that UIE is processing
  • Your licensed products
  • The commands that you specify

The default rules are based on the following principles:

  • Always process all available data unless instructed otherwise
  • Always produce all types of output unless instructed otherwise.
  • Choose an optimal level of detail so that the output size is reasonable, and you are provided with as much information about your enterprise as possible, without additional input.
  • Make most commands and parameters optional so that you need to learn them only when you decide to change the defaults.


 

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