Deciding How to Use CA Dataquery › Getting a Quick Start

Getting a Quick Start

You are authorized to create and maintain your own queries. However, you can use CA Dataquery effectively without ever seeing a query, much less creating one. You can choose to operate in much the same fashion as an associate user.

Use the following pages to help you use CA Dataquery at its most basic level. Even if you plan to become an expert user, you might want to begin by learning how to perform the tasks listed here first.

To use the basic functions of CA Dataquery, you can choose to limit yourself to these tasks:

Produce a report

• Use the DRAW command to create a simple query for execution.
• Select an existing query for execution.
• Specify execution method: online or batch (offline).
• Choose report specification option.
• Supply query variables if prompted.
• Supply batch execution variables if prompted.

View a report on screen

• Scroll results on screen.
• Change format of report with totals.

Display other panels

• Press appropriate PF key.