1. OVERVIEW › 1.1 Reporting and Inquiry Facilities

1.1 Reporting and Inquiry Facilities

The CA MICS Web Analyzer's standard reports are produced by
online inquiries and provide concise and comprehensive
information to help manage the Web environment.  The CA MICS
Web Analyzer provides performance and usage reports that can
either be used as delivered or tailored to your specific
requirements.  In addition to CA MICS Query and Reporting
(discussed in Chapter 2), the CA MICS platform provides
interactive capabilities that allow quick responses to
complex requests.  These capabilities are provided by:

o  The CA MICS Information Center Facility (MICF) - MICF is a
   panel-oriented productivity tool that allows you to access
   information in the CA MICS database.  MICF dynamically
   builds an inquiry program that executes in either
   interactive or batch mode.  Depending on your specific
   requirements, MICF supports the ability to print the
   inquiry report, display the results at your terminal,
   catalog the results for later viewing, or generate a Comma
   Separated Variable (CSV) file that can be used for loading
   in the applications and as CA MICS Q&R Workstation.

o  The standard SAS language interface - The CA MICS
   Workstation Facility (MWF) provides an online environment
   that supports the standard SAS language interface in both
   interactive and batch modes.  SAS allows easy data
   manipulation, statistical analysis, and provides coding
   facilities for programmers who are conducting extensive
   analysis or designing new I/S business reports.  CA MICS
   uses SAS as a data manager and as an advanced analysis
   language.

o  CA MICS Q&R WorkStation - The CA MICS Q&R WorkStation is
   an optional CA MICS product that provides desktop client
   server based access to all data stored in the CA MICS
   mainframe repository.  The product uses a wizard interface
   providing for the rapid development of charting queries
   with little effort and provides for automated publishing
   of the reports on your corporate intranet.  CA MICS Q&R
   WorkStation also interfaces with the CA MICS Information
   Center Facility (MICF), which is a panel-oriented and
   mainframe based reporting tool included with the CA MICS
   platform.

Each type of report is discussed in detail in the following
subsections:

1 - Management Control Reports
2 - Exception Analyzer Reports