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IAPROD:

Getting Started:

• Account Request Form
• IAPROD Quick Sign On Checklist
• Advisor Training - IT Resources Mainframe & Web

FOCUS:

The MFD

• What Does a Master File Describe?
• Master Files Explained
• FOCUS Step By Step
• Sorting
• Creating a Nonprint and Batching to TSO
• How to Pull Addresses

The Marist College FOCUS Manual

• FOCUS Documentation
• Turning a FOCEXEC into a Nonprint
• Intro to FOCUS Power Reporter

TSO - Time Sharing Option - File management on the mainframe:

• FEXTEXT - Hunt Down a Character String in any of your focexecs
• HELD OUTPUT
• Using the Search Facility on TSO
• Copying SDSF Files in Order to Edit

Formal documentation from Information Builders:

• Creating Reports in FOCUS version 7.2
• The IBI FOCUS Overview

PREWRITTEN REPORTS, Support Tools and Intermediate FOCUS topics

• SIS INST

  • Institutional Library Quick Start Guide
  • FOCUS List of SIS INSTITUTIONAL Reports
  • Institutional Library Detail of Focexecs
  • Reporting Examples Using the MARIST Extract File

• RETRIEVING DATA

  • Viewing and Downloading Nonprint Data

• IMPORTING INTO EXCEL

  • Using Hold Format Excel in FOCUS
  • How to Copy FOCEXEC Using EZCOPY
  • Move Your FOCUS Reports to a Webpage

• Intermediate FOCUS Topics

  • Using Conditional/Selection Operators in FOCUS
  • Supplying a Total for a Sort Group
  • Using an 'EDIT MASK' to Reformat Variables
  • Sample Style Sheets Created Using Ex Genstyle

• Desktop applications to use FOCUS output with

  • Begin Excel for FOCUS Data

• System Specific (IAPROD data from SCT Inc.) Documentation

  • HRS

    • Setting the Date in HRS FOCUS
    • HRS focexec examples
    • Keys make the join in HRS FOCUS
    • Name formatting in HRS FOCUS
    • Defines in HRS FOCUS