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3.8 Setting Up Your Graphic Defaults

GRAPHIC DEFAULTS

Many StorageMate analyses will produce either tabular or
graphic results.  Graphic output can be produced on either a
color device or a monochrome printer.  When you run a
StorageMate report for the first time, the default color
graphic options to be used will be set from your MICF Color
Graphics options.  Even though an override panel is provided
by each StorageMate report that produces graphics, having to
override a large number of options will create more work for
you and more possibility of error.  For this reason, you
should review the MICF options relating to color graphics if
you plan to generate color graphics from StorageMate reports.
The procedure to do this is as follows:

 1) From the main StorageMate menu, select option 0 to enter
    the options facility.

 2) Select option 0, 'MICF Options', which allows you to
    modify the options MICF uses during inquiry execution.

 3) Select the option 'Color Graphics Format Parameters' from
    the MICF Options panel.

 4) You will be shown a list of the various color graphics
    devices defined to MICF.  Place an 'S' to the left of the
    device you want to modify, and press ENTER.

 5) Scroll through the items on this menu to make sure all
    options are set correctly for your environment.  If you
    are unsure what certain options do, you may want to leave
    them unchanged until you have had more experience with
    StorageMate color graphics reports.

 6) Press the END PF key until you return to the CA MICS
    StorageMate main menu.

EXECUTION DEFAULTS

Most inquiries in CA MICS StorageMate are most efficiently
run in BATCH mode.  The MICF user profile Execution Mode
option specifies the execution mode to be used.  Review the
default execution mode as set by the CA MICS System
Administrator.  If it reads FOREGROUND, change it to BATCH
for the duration of the StorageMate session.  Be sure to
change the execution mode back to FOREGROUND, if necessary,
after your CA MICS StorageMate session is completed.  The
steps to follow are as follows:

 1) From the main StorageMate menu, select option 0 to enter
    the options facility.

 2) Select option 0, 'MICF Options', which allows you to
    modify the options MICF uses during inquiry execution.

 3) Select the option 'User Profile Parameters' from the MICF
    Options panel.

 4) You will be shown a list of the user profile parameter
    titles.  Look first at the 'Execution Mode Display'
    parameter.  If it reads YES, you will be able to specify
    BATCH processing at the time of StorageMate inquiry
    execution.  If it reads NO, locate the 'Execution Mode'
    parameter.

 5) To specify BATCH processing as a default, enter BATCH at
    the prompt under the 'Execution Mode' parameter.

 6) Press your END PF key until you return to the CA MICS
    StorageMate main menu.

Note that if your options are not set correctly for your
graphic device, SASGRAPH may not be able to produce your
graph.  If this occurs, refer to the error message produced
by SASGRAPH in the SAS log to diagnose the error.  You may
need to alter the number of horizontal or vertical axis
points defined, alter the size of chart bars, or make other
changes to your graphic options to be compatible with your
output device.  You may want to make these modifications
temporarily on the report execution panel, and then make
permanent changes in MICF when you are satisfied with the
results.