1 Jason Miley Richard Young June, 2008 Using WebFOCUS to Consolidate Multiple Legacy Data Stores Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 1

Introduction  Harris County in Houston, Texas ( (  Nation’s 3 rd Largest County  3.9 Million Residents

Introduction  Justice Information Management Systems (division of I.T.C.)  Department since 1976  36 Full-time Employees  20 Contractors  20 years average tenure !  Responsible for most of the Justice related software development for Harris County  24,000 Users across 2,100 agencies  Our Primary Users are other Harris County agencies 3

Your Presenters  Richard Young  With Harris County since 1999  CICS / COBOL / Model 204 developer since 1999  CICS / COBOL / JAVA / JSP developer since 2004  WebFOCUS “expert” since 2007  Jason Miley  With Harris County since 1981 (that’s right…)  CICS / COBOL since 1981  CICS / COBOL / Model 204 since 1985  CICS / COBOL / Model 204 / JAVA (sort of) since 2000  WebFOCUS ( I can spell it on a good day) since 2007  Data Management Team Lead 4

Environment  Hardware  IBM Mainframe ( Z/9 OS/MVS)  Languages  CICS / COBOL  Model 204  JAVA  Data Stores  VSAM  Model 204  DB2  IBM Websphere and WSAD (RSA 7 coming soon)  WebFOCUS server on USS on ZOS Platform. Version  Developers Studio Version client on Windows XP  WebFOCUS server environment on SUSE Linux Version

History 6 JIMS Original System Began in 1976 CICS / COBOL / VSAM Model 204 (since 1985) Development continues to this day JIMS 2 JIMS redesign Began in 2000 Websphere / JAVA / DB2 Browser based

Where We Are Today 7 Model 204VSAMDB2 JIMS JIMS2 Mainframe 30+ years old 2 years old New development being done in both systems.

History of Information Harris County  Customer since ( a long time ago )  Very few users until recently  Used mostly for large nightly data downloads from production files by individual user agencies to feed their local systems  Adopted as the reporting solution for new JIMS2 system less than a year ago  Changed the way we use WebFOCUS  Continue to use for nightly data downloads but,  Embedded WebFOCUS in application workflow 8

Down to Business - Initial Reporting Requirements  Find a reporting solution that can read all three of our mainframe data sources in real-time  Combine and massage the data into a mostly text-based report  Deliver the report in PDF form to the users workstation quickly.  Example:  A court clerk must enter the conditions of supervision according to the Judges orders and print the required documents for signatures while the parties are waiting. 9

10 Report Example  Variable number of pages  Page 1 header  Final page section and thumb print box

11 Report Example  Variable number of elements depending on data

12 Report Example  Variable number of pages  Page 1 header  Final page footer and thumb print box

13 Static and variable length data elements Word wrap Challenges

Solution We inserted the database info into variable length fields and embedded those into the static text. There are some code examples at the end. 14

15 Report Example  Variable number of pages  Page 1 header  Final page footer and thumb print box

16 Produce PDF output and resolve html tags embedded in the database columns. Challenges

17 Report Example  Variable number of pages  Page 1 header  Final page footer and thumb print box

18 Challenges

Challenges Bridging the JIMS2 application to WebFOCUS.  Report Catalog  Contains a cross-reference of report-id’s to WebFOCUS URL’s and parms. 19 Report Catalog JIMS2 Application WebFOCUS

Here’s What It Looks Like 20 The user clicks the Print button The app reads the report catalog, builds the URL and runs the WebFOCUS report.

Here’s What It Looks Like 21

Thanks… We could not have come as far as we have without a lot of help from IBI. Thanks to:  Sharam for all your technical help and patience  Tony for your support and patience  Rena for all that you do and just being you.  All the other IBI into whose lives we brought a little misery 22 Barry AustinJames MirandaAdrian Armogan B.J. StepienJerry StillFloria Foote Brian KashLance ShealyLarry Civelli

Code Example 1  SET COMPONENT='report2'  -*component_type report  DEFINE FILE CSMODIFY  PAGEHEADER/A500V='On this the ' | CASESPRVSNBEGDATEDAYORD | ' day of ' | CASESPRVSNBEGDATEMONTH || ', '  | CASESPRVSNBEGDATEYEAR | ' you are granted ' | SPRVISIONLENTH || ' community supervision for the felony offense of '  | OFFENSETRIM || ' in accordance with section 3 of Article 42.12, Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, in the '  | COURTCODEORD | ' District Court of Harris County, Texas, by the Honorable ' | SIGNEDBYFLNAME | ' Judge Presiding.  It is the order of this Court that you abide by the following Conditions of Community Supervision:';  END  TABLE FILE CSMODIFY  PRINT  PAGEHEADER AS ''  WHERE SPRVISIONORDER_ID EQ &SPRVISIONORDER_ID;  ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM OFF  ON TABLE NOTOTAL  ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF  ON TABLE SET HTMLCSS ON  ON TABLE SET STYLE *  UNITS=IN,  PAGESIZE='Letter',  SQUEEZE=ON,  ORIENTATION=PORTRAIT,  $  TYPE=REPORT,  GRID=OFF,  FONT='ARIAL',  SIZE=9,  MARKUP=ON,  $ 23

Code Example 2  SET COMPONENT='report3'  -*component_type report  TABLE FILE CSMODIFY  PRINT  RESOLVEDESC SKIP-LINE AS ''  COMPUTE COUNTER/I3 = COUNTER + 1; NOPRINT  COMPUTE CONDITIONS/A35V = IF COUNTER EQ 1 THEN ' ' ELSE 'CONDITIONS OF COMMUNITY SUPERVISION'; NOPRINT  COMPUTE FORSPACE/A5 = IF COUNTER EQ 1 THEN ' ' ELSE 'FOR: '; NOPRINT  COMPUTE DEFENDANT/A94V = IF COUNTER EQ 1 THEN ' ' ELSE &partyName.QUOTEDSTRING; NOPRINT  COMPUTE CAUSE/A15 = IF COUNTER EQ 1 THEN ' ' ELSE 'CAUSE NUMBER: '; NOPRINT  COMPUTE ACAUSENUMBER/A13V = IF COUNTER EQ 1 THEN ' ' ELSE CAUSENUMBER; NOPRINT  BY SEQUENCENUM NOPRINT  BY CONDITIONNUMBERWITHADOT AS ''  HEADING  " <CONDITIONS"  " "  "<FORSPACE<DEFENDANT <CAUSE<ACAUSENUMBER"  " "  WHERE SPRVISIONORDER_ID EQ &SPRVISIONORDER_ID;  ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM OFF  ON TABLE NOTOTAL  ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF  ON TABLE SET STYLE *  UNITS=IN,  PAGESIZE='Letter',  …  FONT='ARIAL',  SIZE=9,  MARKUP=ON,  $ 24

25 Questions ?