Report

Using the Report Process, you may create a report on the contents of an Archive or Compare File or list Archive Directory entries that meet criteria you supply.

Depending on your specifications, you can create a report that will:

The Report Process runs on the workstation (not on the Optim™ Server). Specifications for a Report Process are stored as a Report Request. The Report Request provides the parameters needed to select data from the Archive File or the Archive Directory. For an Archive File Report Request, you can also select the output options: a file, a printer, or both.

Note: For information needed to create a report on data in a Compare File, refer to the Compare User Manual .

Run or Schedule

You can process a Report Request immediately (by clicking File > Run) or you can schedule the request for processing at a later time (by clicking File > Schedule). You can also run a Report Request from the command line, providing overrides for parameters in the request (for more information, refer to Command Line Interface — Processing Utilities). You must save a request to schedule it or run it from the command line, but need not save a request to run it.

Naming Conventions

A fully qualified Report Request name is in the form identifier.name, where:

identifier
Identifier assigned to the Report Request name (1 to 8 characters).
name
Base name assigned to the Report Request (1 to 12 characters).

A logical set of naming conventions can identify the use for each Report Request and be used to organize them for easy access.

Section Contents

This section explains how to create, maintain and process a Report Request, including how to: