General Information on Reports

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# General Information on Reports

This section covers the following topics:

- What is a Report?

- Report Attributes

- Separation

## What is a Report?

The print data processed by Entire Output Management are called reports.

To define a report, you create a report definition, consisting of various attributes which determine how the print data are processed.

The actual report which Entire Output Management creates from a report definition is called an active report.

## Report Attributes

A report can have the following attributes:

- General attributes determine how long the active report is available online, if and how it is archived, and miscellaneous other settings.

- Identification attributes determine how the data source of the print data for the report (for example, a spool file produced by a job) is identified.

- Printing attributes determine how and on which printer the active report is printed.

- Distribution attributes determine to which users the active report is distributed for further processing.

- Separation attributes determine which print data from the data source are used; see Separation below.

All report attributes are described under Attributes of a Report.

## Separation

You can select the desired print data from a data source and process them in a single active report; or you can separate them and put them into multiple separate active reports, which will then be created from the same report definition.

For this selection and separation of print data, you use separation routines. You can use either one of the standard separation routines provided by Entire Output Management or your own Natural user routines.

For more information on user routines, see User Separation Routines in the System Administration documentation.

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- What is a Report?
- Report Attributes
- Separation