5. MICF Administration › 5.2 Tasks Performed After Installation
5.2 Tasks Performed After Installation
The tasks you perform and the tools that you use during the
ongoing administration of MICF are the same tasks and tools
that you used when initially installing MICF:
o Administrator Facility Parameters
o Authorization Assignment
o Maintaining the shared MICF options
o Maintaining the shared inquiry catalog
o Maintaining the shared output catalog
o Maintaining MICF inquiry production reporting
The applicability of each of these tasks during the ongoing
administration of MICF is discussed separately below.
ADMINISTRATOR FACILITY PARAMETERS
You should rarely need to change any of the CA MICS
Administrator Facility parameters after you have initially
installed MICF. If you do, you reach these parameters in the
same way that you did for the initial installation.
Note, however, that changes to the DSPRINT device parameter
will not affect MICF after your initial installation. To
change this parameter, select the User Profile Parameter
option on the Shared MICF Options menu.
You must revisit the CA MICS Administrator Facility
parameters if users who attempt to execute large inquiries
receive messages indicating failures in the file tailoring
service. This can occur if the space allocations for work
files are too small. To raise these allocations, use the
Data Set Allocation Parameters option on the CA MICS
Administrator Facility panel.
AUTHORIZATION ASSIGNMENT
Authorization will be an ongoing task. You must update your
authorization tables whenever new users begin using MICF and
when existing users' access requirements change.
Authorization assignments and reassignments are performed in
the same manner as they were during the initial installation
of CA MICS.
MAINTAINING THE SHARED MICF OPTIONS
You should rarely need to change any of the shared MICF
options after you have initially installed MICF. If you do,
you reach these parameters in the same way that you did for
the initial installation.
For example, if a new color pen plotter is installed, you
might change the shared batch execution parameters to reflect
this new device. Changes will be effective for users who
have not overridden the shared defaults by selecting the
Batch Execution Parameters option from the MICF options menu.
Those users who have altered the batch execution parameters
will not see your changes.
You should note that MICF parameters are copied from the
shared defaults to the user's private defaults in groups.
The option groups are:
o User Profile Parameters
o Foreground Execution Parameters
o Batch Execution Parameters
o Printer Format Parameters
o Color Graphics Format Parameters. There is a separate
option group for each color graphics format set. The
number of format sets is unlimited.
o Data Set Allocation Parameters. There is a separate option
group for each of the following MICF data sets: BDTFOUT,
BICFUSER, BLOG, BMICSLOG, BREPORT, CAPACITY, DTFINDEX,
DTFOUT, LIBRARY, LOG, MICSLOG, OUTPUT, PCATALOG, PDTFINDX,
PIXFOUT, PMICSLOG, PMWFPDS, PMWFSAS, PREPORT, PRINT
REPORT, SORTWK, TEMPFILE, USER, UTILLOG, UTILMLOG, and
WORK. Note also that data set allocation parameters are
updated through the CA MICS Administrator Facility
Parameters option and not through the Shared MICF Options
menu.
The shared defaults apply to those option groups that have
not been overridden by the user. For example, most users
will alter the User Profile Parameters to specify their own
default job cards. Therefore, changes to the shared User
Profile Parameters will not be seen by these users. However,
your users may not have altered the Data Set Allocation
parameters for the SORTWK data set and, therefore, your
changes will take effect for these users.
If a user issues the RESTORE command for an option group, his
or her options will be reset to the current shared default
values. These will differ from the original default values
if you have made any changes since the user first tailored
these options.
MAINTAINING THE SHARED INQUIRY CATALOG
Maintaining the shared inquiry catalog will be an ongoing
task. You may want to delegate the authority to add
inquiries to the catalog to other people in your data center.
To do so, use the Authorization Assignment facility on the
CA MICS Administrator Facility menu.
The tasks of adding and deleting inquiries to the shared
inquiry catalog are performed in the same manner as they were
during the installation of MICF.
MAINTAINING THE SHARED INQUIRY OUTPUT CATALOG
Maintaining the shared inquiry output catalog will be an
ongoing task. You may want to delegate the authority to add
inquiry output to the catalog to other people in your data
center. To do so, use the Authorization Assignment facility
on the CA MICS Administrator Facility menu.
The tasks of adding and deleting inquiry output to the shared
inquiry output catalog are performed in the same manner as
they were during the installation of MICF.
MAINTAINING MICF INQUIRY PRODUCTION REPORTING
Maintaining MICF inquiry production reporting will be an
ongoing task. You may want to delegate the authority to
maintain MICF inquiry production reporting jobstreams to
other people in your data center. To do so, use the
Authorization Assignment facility on the CA MICS
Administrator Facility menu.
You can allow other people to access the Production Reporting
Administration option and then use your data center's
security facilities to limit changes they can implement. For
example, you must have UPDATE access to
sharedprefix.MICS.ISPTLIB to add or delete a production
reporting jobstream, or to modify jobstream name, title,
associated CA MICS job, and DB ID specifications. However,
you can specify the MICF inquiries to be executed with the
production reporting jobstream, execution options, and data
set allocation parameters without UPDATE authority for
sharedprefix.MICS.ISPTLIB. Thus, you can allow an
application group to control its own production reporting.
The tasks of adding, modifying, and deleting MICF inquiry
production reporting jobstreams are performed in the same
manner as they were during the installation of MICF.
