Materiel Readiness Support System (MARS) Interface Prompting Guide

摘要

The Defense Logistics Agency Materiel Readiness Support (MARS) System provides a method for you to obtain statistics about DLA's supply performance. The full capabilities of MARS allow for analysis of historical support to a weapon system(s) and/or organizational unit(s), predictions of future support to weapon systems, nonweapon systems, and/or a Service, and analysis of item data. The prompting program described here is concerned with historical or future support and attempts to bridge the gap between the end user and the computer by providing a semiautomated means to generate the necessary computer commands (JCL for Job Control Language) to execute the required parts and functions within MARS. In order to use the prompting program, you will need to have access to the Operations Research and Economic Analysis Office (DLA-LO) computer at the Defense General Supply Center (DGSC). The prompting system will do most of the work for you. You will need to respond to questions which the prompting program will ask. You will need to know what are proper responses and the kind of statistics you are attempting to obtain. For further information on statistics or input values, please refer to the MARS System Manual. (kr)