Understanding Your Tasks

Understanding Your Tasks

As an associate user, you are responsible for executing prepared queries or dialogs to produce reports and business charts. With appropriate authorizations, you can perform these tasks:

Display any associate user panel.

• Press the appropriate PF key.

Produce a report.

The tasks are:

• Select a query for execution.
• Specify execution method: online or batch.
  (Batch requires authorization.)
• Choose report specifications.
• Supply dialog variables if prompted.
• Supply batch execution variables if prompted.
  (Some batch specifications require additional authorization.)

View a report on screen.

The options are:

• Scroll results on screen.
• Change totals display on numeric report.
  (Query must specify totals.)
• Change report format using WRAP, NOWRAP.

Access your User Profile panel.

(System options may not permit use by associate users.) The options are:

• Change default language.
• Change modes between DQL Mode and SQL Mode.
  (Requires CA Datacom/DB SQL option installation and administrative authorization.)
• Change display options.
• Change print options.