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1.2 Document Organization

The remaining chapters in this document cover the
following topics:

    Chapter 2, System Overview, gives a tutorial on the
    structure of a CA MICS system. It describes the functions
    performed in the installation and operation of CA MICS,
    explains how to identify modules in the CA MICS libraries
    that perform any particular function, and tells how a
    CA MICS database complex is structured.

    Chapter 3, Maintenance Policies and Procedures, describes
    the difference between changes to CA MICS that CA
    provides and the modifications a user would make to
    CA MICS.  Each type of vendor maintenance is explained,
    and a procedure for creating and applying user changes is
    given.

    Chapter 4, CA MICS Facilities, explains the parts of
    CA MICS that enable system changes to be applied quickly
    and accurately.  It explains the CA MICS generator
    subsystems, standard CA MICS exits, vendor-supplied
    utilities, and the CA MICS Information Center Facility.

    Chapter 5, CA MICS/SAS Coding Conventions, shows a set of
    considerations for SAS coding within CA MICS that all
    users must be aware of, before any system modifications
    are undertaken.

    Chapter 6, Database Tailoring and Retrofitting
    Techniques, explains the mechanism CA MICS uses to
    describe CA MICS databases and how the standard
    descriptions can be modified to add, change, or delete
    individual data elements, groups of data elements, and
    files within timespans.

    Chapter 7, Writing Field-developed Applications, is a
    tutorial on the use of the CA MICS component generation
    facility to add your own component to the CA MICS system.
    Discussion of two utilities available for adding your own
    components, MSI, is included at the end of this chapter.
    The other utility for adding your own components, MTI, is
    the subject of the next chapter.

    Chapter 8, CA MICS NSM Integration (MTI), describes the
    features and utilities of the MTI package which you may
    use to integrate data from NSM into CA MICS.  The chapter
    also provides instructions for modifying your
    installation to take advantage of these features and
    utilities.