CA-View

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 CA-View users both IT and non IT (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-View database and running CA-View.

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

3 days Hands on.

Course Objectives

Completing all parts of this course will provide delegates with the knowledge and skills to administer fully a CA-View 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 - Any users of CA-View, including end users as opposed to just IT personnel. (1 day)
View panels and commands
General panel format and common commands
Modes, Selecting SYSOUT
The 5 User Modes
Selecting Sysout
Selection Lists and modes
Selection List commands
Browsing SYSOUT
The Find, Locate, Mark commands, etc
Selecting Filters
Annotations
Printing SYSOUT
User level batch and online Printing

Intermediate - For View Administrators. (1/2 day)
Printing SYSOUT
The 5 User Modes
Batch and online Printing
Print attributes
Reprinting off-Spool
Defining Logical Views
How to re-format a report
Building an index
Building line colour display
Defining a Filter
Selecting data for display
High-lighting text
User Interface
Defining View Users
Defining Sysout and Distribution Ids
Defining Print Devices
SARBCH Utility

Advanced – Administrators responsible for defining and maintaining the CA-View database and running CA-View utilities. (1 day)
System Components
Database components
Archiving
Back-up
SARINIT
The main initialisation options
Print-Archive-Print loops
Backup Cycle
Daily backup cycle
Archive Generations
Expanded Retention Option
ERO parameters
SARPAC utility
Exception Code Table
Defining exception conditions
Defining Banner Pages
What is a Banner Page, its construction and how to update
Security
Internal Security
External Security
Database Maintenance
Defining and maintaining the View database with the SARDBASE utility
Database Recovery
The different recovery strategies
Disaster recovery
Tape Utilities
Tape mapping
Tape re-build
Report to tape cross reference
Restore to disk
Scratch and Clean
SARXTD
Automatic Archival
Database security