Previous Topic: Ways to Select Menu OptionsNext Topic: The Encyclopedia Users


The Tasks

The various encyclopedia tasks that can be performed follow:

Task

Where to Find More Information

Assign user access

See the chapters How to Set Up Security and How to Control User Access.

Check in and Check out models

See the chapter How to Check in and Check out Models and Subsets.

Convert models from other applications

See the chapter How to Manage Models.

Create and manage models

See the chapter How to Manage Models.

Generate and print reports

See the chapter How to Generate Reports.

Model administrative tasks, such as copy, rename, or override check out of models

See the chapter How to Manage Models.

Construct and test applications

See the Host Encyclopedia Construction User Guide.

Define and work with subsets

See the Host Encyclopedia Subsetting User Guide.

Import and export models

See the Host Encyclopedia Public Interface Reference Guide.

The range of tasks you can perform as a user depends on the access or authority granted you.

Information on performing Encyclopedia tasks is organized into these chapters:

Host Encyclopedia

For all users. Defines the Encyclopedia. It also shows you how to sign on to TSO, access the Main Menu, and reach the Host Encyclopedia.

How to Set Up Security

Primarily for encyclopedia administrators and modelers assigning access to other users. Shows (through a table of authorizations) the levels of authority required to execute specific functions.

How to Control User Access

For encyclopedia administrators and model owners. Describes how to perform the Host Encyclopedia functions necessary to grant authorization to users, beginning with instructions on how to access CA Gen and the Host Encyclopedia.

How to Check in and Check out Models and Subsets

Describes the concept and flow of check in and check out, and shows you how to check in and check out models and subsets, using either the automatic or manual method.

How to Manage Models

Describes how to backup and restore models, perform consistency checks, copy and delete models, and how to perform other model management tasks.

How to Generate Reports

Details the reports you can generate on models and subsets (and users that you set up with the procedures in the chapter on controlling user access), and describes how you can print and store the reports.

How to Navigate the Host Encyclopedia

Describes key basic information about the Environment Specifications option available on the Main Menu (which allows you to do such things as customize function keys and change menu colors), as well as the Common User Access symbols and conventions used throughout the menu structure.