What To Do Next


This guide has provided an overview of basic reporting
features and tools, along with some common SAS language and
CA MICS-based facilities that will assist you in the
retrieval and reporting of information in the CA MICS
databases.

At this point, you are ready to use either the ISPF-based
MICS Information Center Facility (MICF) or the Windows-based
Query and Reporting Workstation (Q&R).  Each of these tools
has guides explaining it:

o Use the tutorial in the MICF User Guide to learn how to
  produce standard reports from the shared catalog of
  database inquiries, how to view available queries with
  their abstracts and sample output, and how to copy selected
  queries to your private catalogs.

o Use the Q&R Workstation Getting Started, Administration
  Guide, and Report Samples to see sample reports that will
  help you understand retrieval and display concepts.

Your CA MICS administrator can help you install the Q&R
Workstation and can give you the authority to use it and
MICF.

Both MICF and Q&R ensure that inquiries you develop can be
easily modified when database reconfiguration occurs, so you
can avoid tedious JCL and code changes. Both tools provide
the ability to share the inquiries as well as the output
with other users. This avoids having to share altered jobs
with users of static JCL and code that may become outdated or
incorrect.

Once you learn how to use MICF or Q&R and understand the
structure of the CA MICS database, you will be able to
generate a wide range of reports by specifying files and data
elements to be manipulated, along with the analysis method,
report, and format to be used.