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Using Customizable reports

DASD MANAGER PLUS

 provides fully documented, customizable report programs that you can run online or in batch mode.

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For more information, view the Quick Course 'DASD MANAGER PLUS—Customizing Reports.'

With the report programs, you can produce reports on data in the DASD MANAGER PLUS historical database, the Db2 catalog, or your own databases. You can run the reports as they are, customize them, or use the provided external functions to write your own report programs.

Warning

Important

When preparing to run a customizable report in batch, you must perform one of the following items:

  • Review and edit the SYSEXEC DD statement to provide the correct DSN for the report code.
  • Set the Sysexec variable on the DASD MANAGER PLUS JCL Generation Jobcard Options Update panel. Providing this information in your options before generating batch JCL prevents you from having to provide this information each time you generate a batch job for a customized report.

The DASD MANAGER PLUS reports are in REXX, a general-purpose, interpreted language that exists on all z/OS systems. Because REXX is an interpreted language, the development cycle for REXX programs is short. Specifically, you edit and run instead of edit, compile, link, bind, and run.

Customizable-report-programs-and-customization describes the DASD MANAGER PLUS external functions, formatting, REXX conventions, and other aspects of the reports. The appendix contains an annotated sample report program.


 

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DASD MANAGER PLUS for DB2 13.1