The following are instructions on how to access the user-friendly FOCUS menu from a mainframe session. Also included is a section on troubleshooting any messages you may receive while trying to access or use the menu. Any questions, comments, problems or new report suggestions should be directed to Carolyn McEvitt at 6-5887 or by sending an email to c.b.mcevitt@uconn.edu.

STEP 1 - The first item that will need to be addressed in order to use the menu is your CMS logon profile. A CMS logon profile is used to tailor a user's CMS environment. The profile contains certain commands and parameter settings that allow you to access different disks, set printer defaults, set the temporary z-space, etc. To have your profile reviewed and edited contact Carolyn McEvitt at the above number or email address. You will need to provide your CMS account logonid and password to her.

STEP 2 - Once STEP1 has been taken care of, you can now open a mainframe session by clicking on the mainframe icon found on your desktop. It might be a good idea to have a widescreen session setup for use with these menus. This will eliminate the need to use F10 and F11 to view reports that are wider than 80 columns. Many of you already have a widescreen session setup for Control-D. This is perfectly fine to use for the Focus menu as well. Please call x5887 or x3778 if you would like a widescreen session setup on your PC.

STEP 3 - Opening a mainframe session will bring you to the "green screen" and at the command line you will place an 'A' and then hit ENTER. You will then be prompted to enter you CMS logonid and the password. Hit ENTER once more and wait until you get to the "READY" prompt.

STEP 4 - At "READY", type the following exactly how you see it: FRSFOCUS. Please note that the text is not case sensitive, so you may type it as upper or lowercase. Also, if you get the message: UNKNOWN CP/CMS COMMAND contact Carolyn McEvitt for help with this. This simply means that your profile needs to be edited to allow you to access FOCUS.

STEP 5 - Next you will be brought to the FRS Focus Reporting Menu. Tab until your cursor falls on the "+" sign next to the report group that contain reports that may be of interest to you and then hit ENTER.

STEP 6 - You will be brought to a 2nd menu which will allow you to select specific reports found under the group you selected. Again, tab until your cursor falls on the "+" sign next to the report you would like to run and hit ENTER.

STEP 7 - Many of the reports prompt you for specific data such as account number(s), department number, date range, etc. Each prompt gives an example of how you should input a response.

NOTEWORTHY -

• Each report request automatically executes commands to link to their required data files. Reports that display transaction information it may take a few minutes to do the linking.....please be patient! Transaction file linking usually takes about a minute or two to complete.
• If you see the word "HOLDING" or "MORE" in the lower right hand corner of the screen, just hit the "Pause/Break" key.
• If you want to cancel out of a report that is running, just type KX then hit ENTER.....this Kills eXecution of the report. It returns you to a focus caret (>) which allows you to type either FIN to exit focus completely, or you may type and enter EX F9530S01 to initiate the focus user menu again. If you FIN out of focus, you will be brought back to "READY", which will allow you to Logoff of the mainframe, or you may issue the FRSFOCUS command to go back to the menu.
• The main menu also contains instructions at the bottom of the screen.

Unknown CP/CMS command

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