CA-Deliver

Audience

Following the Overview aimed at all IT personal who may need to know about Report Management services (including Job Schedulers, JCL writers, Operators, Programming Analysts), this course can be broken down into 3 parts: An entry level course for Deliver administrators (Basic), an intermediate stage aimed at administrators as a bridge to the Advanced course or as the completion to training of junior staff and then the Advanced section for administrators responsible for defining and maintaining the CA-Deliver database and running CA-Deliver.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for attending but each part of the course should be taken in order and is a requirement for the next part.

Duration

Up to 4 days, including advanced section. Hands on.

Course Objectives

Completing all parts of this course will provide delegates with the knowledge and skills to administer fully a CA-Deliver system.

Course Content

Introduction - IT personal who wish to know about Report Management services. (1/2 Hour)
The CA-View and CA-Deliver System
System over-view of the two products
Deliver database design
The relationship of Jobs and Reports to Deliver
The 5 View Modes
Deliver database design

Basic - Entry level course for Deliver Administrators. (1½ days)
Deliver panels and commands
General panel format and common commands
Defining Basic Reports
Defining Distribution Identifiers, Jobs and Reports
Bundle Concepts
What is a Bundle, its construction and control
Defining Bundles
How to define Bundles
Active Bundle List
How to display and control active Bundles
Active Report List
How to display active Reports

Intermediate - Administrators as a bridge to the Advanced course or as the completion to training of junior staff. (½ day)
Stacked Report Concepts
What is a Stacked Report, its construction and control
Exclusive Stacked Reports
How to define an Exclusive Stacked Report
Other Stacked Reports
Begin/End and Page type Stacked Reports
AND & OR selection criteria
Other Report Types
Control, Monitor and Interleaved Reports
Batch Reporting
The RMORPT Utility
Interface with View
Defining View Users and linking to Deliver Distribution
Re-printing Bundles

Advanced - Administrators responsible for defining and maintaining the CA-Deliver database and running CA-Deliver utilities. (2 days)
Job Name Translation Table
Purpose and definition of Job name Translation table
Defining Banner Pages
What is a Banner Page, its construction and how to update
Additional Commands
Display and Track command and History Selection
Database Maintenance
Defining and maintaining the Deliver databse with the RMODBASE utility
Deliver Utilities
Batch Bundle posting, Automatic database construction from JCL, Report Activation, etc.
RMODBB
Updating the database in batch
RMOGRW
Producing user reports with the General Report Writer