1. OVERVIEW › 1.2 Reporting and Inquiry Facilities

1.2 Reporting and Inquiry Facilities

The DB2 Analyzer's standard reports and online inquiries
provide concise, comprehensive information to help you manage
the DB2 environment.  CA MICS provides interactive
capabilities that allow fast response to complex requests.
These capabilities are provided by:

o  The CA MICS Information Center Facility (MICF) - MICF is a
   panel-oriented productivity tool that allows you to access
   information in the CA MICS Data Base. When you define
   input, selection criteria, and report options, MICF
   dynamically builds an inquiry program that executes in
   either interactive or batch mode.  Then, depending on your
   specific requirements, MICF either prints the inquiry
   report, displays the results at your terminal, or catalogs
   the results for later viewing.

o  The standard SAS language interface - The CA MICS
   Workstation Facility (MWF) provides an online environment
   that supports the standard SAS language interface in both
   interactive and batch modes.  SAS allows easy data
   manipulation and statistical analysis and provides coding
   facilities for programmers who are conducting extensive
   analysis efforts or designing new reports for I/S business
   applications.  Because you can use the SAS System across
   different types of machines (mainframes, micros, and
   minis), it provides tremendous flexibility throughout the
   organization.  CA MICS uses the SAS System as a data
   manager and as an advanced analysis language.

The DB2 Analyzer provides management and exception reports
that you can either use as delivered or tailor to your
specific requirements.  In addition, you may use the MICF and
standard SAS language interface to create ad hoc reports.

Each type of report is discussed in detail in the following
subsections.

1 - Management Control Reports
2 - Exception Analyzer Reports