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1.5.7.1 Using Production Reporting

To reach Production Reporting Administration, select option
5, Production Reporting Administration, from the Capacity
Planner main menu.  Selecting this option will lead you
through a series of MICF screens to build and maintain a
reporting jobstream.  This sequence of screens is more fully
described in the CA MICS MICF User Guide.

You can access this same sequence of screens not only from
the Capacity Planner main menu but also from the MICF
Administration menu.

Production Reporting Administration provides you the ability
to define and maintain production updating jobstreams of your
shared Capacity Planning database files.  It also permits you
to define and maintain MICF inquiry production reporting.
Consult the CA MICS MICF User Guide description of this
capability and for a description of the overall function of
Production Reporting Administration.

Before implementing the production updating of any Capacity
Planner files, you need to categorize the files.  Create a
worksheet of files, timespan dependencies, and unit
dependencies, as shown in the following example.

Capacity           Timespan                    Unit
  File            Dependencies              Dependencies
---------    ---------------------     ----------------------
  File                                 Primary   CICS     VCA
  Name       Daily  Weekly  Monthly       P        C       V

  CPD          X                          X
  CPW                 X                   X
  CPM                         X           X
  WKM                         X           X
  SMM                         X                            X
  TRM                         X           X        X

In this example, creation of five production updating job
streams will manage updating the six capacity files.

The updates for CPD, CPW, and SMM can be defined in
appropriate DAILY, WEEKLY, and MONTHLY production job streams
and automatically submitted.  When the primary (P) CA MICS
unit completes its MONTHLY processing, capacity files CPM and
WKM can be updated in a single production job stream.  The
update for the TRM capacity file, however, requires that
MONTHLY processing be complete for both primary (P) and CICS
(C) units and cannot be scheduled automatically.

The job stream categories are summarized as follows:

Category    Files       Criteria for the        Automatically
                            Category              Submitted

Daily       CPD          Daily,   Unit: P            Yes
Weekly      CPW          Weekly,  Unit: P            Yes
Monthly     CPM, WKM     Monthly, Unit: P            Yes
Monthly     SMM          Monthly, Unit: V            Yes
Monthly     TRM          Monthly, Unit: P and C      No

Jobs can be scheduled to be automatically submitted during
the DAILY, WEEKLY, or MONTHLY processing for the unit.