Rational Programming Patterns for System z

The Report entity

The Report entity is used to define and describe a Report. A Report is a document containing formatted data that results from running a query and applying a form to it. A Report must be called into a Program instance to be generated.

The Report entity is used to describe the layout of the Report and specify the general characteristics relating to the printing of the Report.

To create a Report, you must:

A Report cannot be generated by itself, it must be called into a Program instance (see the -CD Lines tab in the Program editor). A Report can be defined once and used in several Programs. During the generation of the Program instance, the Report is taken into account and the code necessary to manage the Report is placed into the source code for the Program instance.


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