7. Writing Field-developed Applications › 7.2 Deciding What the Application Must Do › 7.2.2 Reports Needed

7.2.2 Reports Needed

Identifying your reporting requirements is typically a matter
of tracking the information requests you have received and
then grouping the requests according to the data source that
can be used to fulfill them.

Next, select a method to present the information--online
inquiry or paper report; table, graph, pie chart, and so on
are all possibilities with the CA MICS system.

Expressing your reporting requirements within the CA MICS
framework, described below, enables you to use standard
CA MICS operational facilities to generate the reports.

o  CA MICS online inquiries are created using the CA MICS
   Information Center Facility (MICF).  You can define an
   inquiry, control access to it, and include or exclude it
   from automatic execution.  See the MICF User Guide and
   MICF Reference Guide for more information about using
   MICF.

o  CA MICS Exception Reports provide the detail needed to
   specifically identify and correlate the problems generated
   in the measured subsystem among all data processing
   subsystems managed in your CA MICS system.  They are
   discussed below.

o  CA MICS Management Objective Reports provide clear,
   graphic illustrations of the measured subsystem's
   performance against predetermined management objectives.
   They are discussed below.