5. MICF Administration › 5.1 Tasks Performed During Installation › 5.1.6 Production Reporting › 5.1.6.8 Q&R Integration › 5.1.6.8.1 Prerequisites

5.1.6.8.1 Prerequisites

  Q&R Integration has the following requirements:

 o Available space in a Hierarchical File System (HFS/zFS)
   directory on a hardware device that can be accessed by a
   Microsoft Windows distributed server machine.  This UNIX
   directory must be mapped to a drive on the Q&R distributed
   server for direct access by the distributed server.  This
   facilitates execution of RMWSLOAD to directly read the
   files in the HFS/zFS directory for subsequent publication.

   Sharing files between z/OS USS and a Windows client (Q&R
   Workstation) requires the use of IBM z/OS NFS (Network
   File System).

   The NFS server enables the client user, remote access to
   z/OS UNIX file files from a client workstation.

 o Ability to start the distributed server with USS
   credentials that have the authority to access the HFS/zFS
   directory in order to read the reporting job stream
   output.  This is only necessary to access the MICF generated
   output directly from Q&R Query Output Retrieval.

   Note:  Without the ability to share the drive with a
   Windows machine, you cannot take advantage of any
   integration features.

 o The ability to export the HFS/zFS USS directory and map it
   to the Windows machine running the Q&R distributed server
   every time the machine is restarted (persistent connection).

 o The installation of the Q&R Workstation feature of CA MICS
   Release 12.7.