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1.4.1.1 Overview of the Online Facility


The online facility provides a convenient way for you to use
the CA MICS Performance Manager Option to rapidly obtain the
results you need.  With the online facility, you do not need
an in-depth knowledge of CA MICS or SAS to effectively use
the CA MICS Performance Manager Option for building,
maintaining, and analyzing performance management database
files.  The online facility's automatic validation procedures
prevent you from making invalid requests, such as trying to
use data elements that do not exist in the CA MICS files.
Automatic validation also prevents syntax errors during
subsequent analysis of performance management database files.

Following MICF's format, the online facility allows you to
create programs called analysis inquiries.  You can design
these inquiries to analyze that data and produce tabular and
graphics reports.

Online screens are provided for each reporting feature of the
CA MICS Performance Manager Option. These panels and the
chapters in this guide that discuss them lead you through the
use of each of these features.

A comprehensive, interactive tutorial facility assists you in
learning and using the online facility.  In addition, you
have online access to all CA MICS documentation while you are
using the online facility.

The following steps briefly describe how the online facility
works:

  o  You define the input, selection criteria, analysis, and
     report options.

  o  Transparent to you, the online facility dynamically
     builds the analysis inquiry program from your
     specifications.

  o  The inquiry is executed interactively or in batch, and
     performs an analysis upon the data in your database
     files.  The reports and diagnostic output produced
     during the inquiry execution are displayed at your
     terminal or routed to a printer.