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2.1.1 Using SAS for Retrieval and Reporting

Perhaps the most important value in the CA MICS Space
Analyzer product is the transformation of VTOC, catalog, and
DFHSM data into SAS data sets.  Once captured and integrated
into the CA MICS database, this data is available for
analysis and reporting by the extremely powerful SAS system.
SAS provides a wide variety of facilities for data access and
retrieval.  You need not be a SAS expert to exploit the data
analysis power of SAS once the data has been properly
organized.

While writing your own SAS programs to access and report the
data in these CA MICS information areas offers great
flexibility, several facilities are provided that offer great
advantages in working with SAS - even for SAS experts!

These facilities enable you to concentrate more fully on the
problems to be solved while providing a variety of built-in
functions and techniques that reduce what you need to know
about the organization of the data.  These facilities that
lessen what you need to know about the data are described in
the sections that follow:

    - CA MICS Information Center Facility (MICF)
    - CA MICS Management Support Applications