FOCUS Online Training Course
Course Topics: 21
Estimated Time Needed: 55 hour(s)
Audience: This training course is for anyone interested in learning to use FOCUS either as an end user or an application developer.
Course Description: This online course is designed for both FOCUS end users and application developers. It covers basic FOCUS concepts and terminology, its file structure, and the Master File Description. It details application developer facilities, and covers using FOCUS with TED, creating reports, graphs, and file definitions, and looks at data manipulation and screening techniques. Additional topics include accessing file definitions, using MODIFY requests, and the Dialogue Manager, FIDEL, and MAINTAIN facilities.
Course Tutorials Include:
FOCUS: 1 Getting Started
Description
This course provides an introduction to the FOCUS environment and its features and terminology.
Objectives
- Recognize basic FOCUS concepts and terminology
- Define the FOCUS file structure
- Use the Master File Description
- Create reports and use facilities
- Use Application Developer facilities
FOCUS: 2 Working with FOCUS
Description
This course shows users how to work in FOCUS using TED.
Objectives
- Recognize the general concepts of TED
- Add and delete material in TED
- Move and copy in TED
- Explain introductory material concerning the Terminal Operator Environment
- Describe the functions of the seven windows in TED
- Operate WINDOW commands in TED
FOCUS: 3 Basic Report Preparation
Description
This course This course is for anyone who is interested in learning about basic report preparation using FOCUS.
Objectives
- Describe the various course conventions
- Identify the screens used by the various course databases
- Use the TABLE command to initiate report requests
- Use the PRINT and LIST verbs to print the field values in report requests
- Use the SUM, ADD, WRITE, and COUNT Verbs in report requests
- Describe the basic sorting process of data
- Explain the various printing techniques used for creating reports
- Use the IF statement and WHERE clause to screen records
- Explain the various uses of the WHERE clause
FOCUS: 4 Creating Simple Reports
Description
This course shows users how to use FOCUS to create simple reports.
Objectives
- Create subheadings and subfootings
- Use the Hot Screen option in FOCUS
- Explain line and page options in FOCUS
- Create headings and footings in FOCUS
- Use advanced methods to scroll
- Use search and locate to find repeat forms
- Save reports in FOCUS
- Understand course conventions
- Create course databases
FOCUS: 5 Creating Complex Reports
Description
This course shows users how to use various techniques to create sophisticated reports with FOCUS.
Objectives
- Use the rules for coding statements in FOCUS graph requests
- Describe how to use advanced sorting techniques when creating reports
- Create headings and footings, including positioning text
- Rank and summarize numeric data
- Create totals in your reports and print them
FOCUS: 6 Additional Reporting Techniques
Description
This course explains what you need to know in order to perform additional reporting techniques.
Objectives
- Identify Alternate File Views and TableF
- Explain the method of attaching files
- Distinguish betweeen the Match vs Join commands
- Describe the method for saving report output
- Distinguish between the Hold vs Save commands
FOCUS: 7 Fundamentals of Graphs
Description
This course provides an introduction to graphing concepts and techniques used in FOCUS.
Objectives
- Understand FOCUS command syntax and the types of graphs you can create
- Use graphing verbs and sort clauses to create graphs
- Set parameters to affect the appearance and function of graphs
- Create bar charts, using parameters that affect the appearance and control the horizontal axis
- Create multiple bar charts
- Create single variable histograms and multiple variable histograms
FOCUS: 8 Advanced Graph Topics
Description
This course explains how to create and format graphs for presentation on various types of platforms.
Objectives
- Recognize FOCUS graph types
- Control the format of graphs
- Specify the parameters of graphs
- Control the format of scatter diagrams
- Specify the parameters of scatter diagrams
- Using tuning techniques to adjust graphs
- Apply special formats to graphs
- Display graphs on alternate devices
FOCUS: 9 Data Manipulation for Reporting
Description
This course explains how to create and format graphs for presentation on various types of platforms.
Objectives
- Use expressions
- Use prefix operators
- Create new fields
- Use the DEFINE command
- Specify the parameters of scatter diagrams
- Explain the differences between COMPUTE and DEFINE
FOCUS:10 Advanced Screening Techniques
Description
This course explains how to create and format graphs for presentation on various types of platforms.
Objectives
- Use the DECODE function to make reports easy to read
- Apply the EDIT function to manipulate fields
- Use INCLUDES and EXCLUDES for character string screening
- Use masks to retrieve specific information
- Use sum of value tests with statements to determine the amount and type of information screened
- Use compound logic to retrieve specific information
- Store lists of screening values as text files
FOCUS:11 Creating File Definitions
Description
This course explains how to create and format graphs for presentation on various types of platforms.
Objectives
- Discuss file declarations
- Define Master File Descriptions and their purposes
- Explain the three types of declarations that make up an MFD
- List rules for coding MFDs
- Discuss rules for coding FOCUS commands
- Define segment declaration
- Explain the SEGNAME attribute
- Discuss the PARENT attribute
- Identify the SEGTYPE attribute
- Discuss the FORMAT attribute
- Explain how to specify field length
FOCUS:12 Adjusting File Definitions
Description
This course shows users how to adjust file definitions in FOCUS.
Objectives
- Distinguish between the various segments used to track information in a database
- Create special temporary fields in your files and know how to name a file, including the suffix attribute
- Identify the various types of FORMAT values
- Assign TITLE, DESCRIPTION, ACCEPT and other attributes
- Use the CHECK command
FOCUS:13 Accessing External Files
Description
This course shows users how to describe external files to FOCUS.
Objectives
- Create a Master File Description for general categories of external files
- Describe the structure of simple sequential files and multiple record type files
- Distinguish between the MFDs for ISAM and VSAM interfaces
- Code FOCUS MFD for the DB2 and SQL/DS interfaces
- Code Access File Description to access SQL tables from FOCUS
FOCUS:14 Basic MODIFY Requests
Description
This course provides an overview of the basic MODIFY requests in FOCUS.
Objectives
- Add, update and delete information in a database using the MODIFY process
- Enter a MODIFY request and explain the results
- Create a FIXFORM statement to read transaction data stored on a file
- Create the PROMPT statement to read transaction data
FOCUS:15 Segment Modification
Description
This course provides further instruction in maintaining and understanding files and databases in FOCUS.
Objectives
- Test values
- Test incoming transaction values
- Test for existing incoming values
- Compare incoming transaction values
- Understand computations and the COMPUTE statement
- Change incoming transaction values
- Compute new values
- Define incoming data fields
- Understand course conventions in FOCUS
- Recognize and understand three course databases
FOCUS:16 Complex MODIFY Requests
Description
This course provides an overview of the use of FOCUS and how to use it to perform complex MODIFY Requests.
Objectives
- Understand course conventions in FOCUS
- Recognize and understand three course databases
- Compute new values
- Define incoming data fields
- Test incoming transaction values
- Test for existing incoming values
FOCUS:17 Additional File Maintenance
Description
This course provides further instruction in maintaining and understanding files and databases in FOCUS.
Objectives
- Explain course databases
- Code TYPE statements
- Use a LOG statement
- Use rejected transactions
- Use the CASE statement
- Manage branching with GOTO, PERFORM, and IF statements
- Design an application
FOCUS:18 Dialogue Manager and FIDEL
Description
This course provides an advanced look at the Dialogue Manager and FIDEL features found in FOCUS.
Objectives
- Explain Dialogue Manager and FIDEL
- Understand the two database systems that are used for examples and exercises
- Use the Dialogue Manager to insert control statements in a FOCEXEC
- Identify three types of fields on a FIDEL screen
FOCUS:19 More Features of FIDEL
Description
This course provides an overview of the additional features of FIDEL and how FIDEL is used with MODIFY and Dialogue Manager.
Objectives
- Use automatic CRTFORMs for database maintenance
- Use case logic in FIDEL
- Read multiple occurrences of fields with a single CRTFORM
- Create a menu-driven application using Dialogue Manager
FOCUS:20 MAINTAIN Facility
Description
This course explains how to use the FOCUS MAINTAIN facility to maintain FOCUS files.
Objectives
- Explain how MAINTAIN is used for database maintenance
- Identify MAINTAIN language standards and concepts
- Design a fully functional MAINTAIN procedure that performs maintenance functions for a database
- Prepare a MAINTAIN procedure to include a grid so that multiple rows of data can be updated at once
- Identify additional commands that are useful when developing MAINTAIN procedures
FOCUS:21 Completing a MAINTAIN Application
Description
This course teaches users how to build cases, create a grid, and use other commands to complete an application in MAINTAIN.
Objectives
- Understand the sample databases and conventions used in the course
- Use the ADDPROD, CHGPROD, and DELPROD commands to develop Cases
- Use FWDPROD, BWDPROD, ENDPROD, and TOP to manipulate Cases
- Create a grid for your MAINTAIN application
- Use additional commands to manipulate your MAINTAIN application
Features
- Exercises allow learners to practice in the actual application being studied.
- A Course Topics list contains active hyperlinks, permitting quick access to specific topics.
- Find-A-Word allows learners to look up an unfamiliar term in the Glossary, on the Web, or in a dictionary. In addition, it lets them find other occurrences of the term in the same course.
- Search text enables learners to rapidly search all text within a course to easily retrieve information required.
- Courses challenge the learner with a variety of question formats, including multi-step simulations, true/false, multiple choice, and fill-in-the-blank.
- A skill assessment generates a customized learning path based on the results of a pre-test.
- A glossary provides a reference for definitions of unfamiliar terms.
- Bookmarking tracks the learner's progress in a course.
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