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Automate report execution and distribution with Report
Broker: 5733-QU3
• Automated Delivery Of Information
– On Scheduled Basis
• Through Admin GUI
• Daily, Weekly, Specific Days, exclude rules, etc.
– On Event Basis
• Some customization required
• Intelligent bursting
– Ex: Regional Sales Report
• Additional output formats for batch reporting
– (HTML, PDF, Excel, Active HTML)
• Delivery Destinations
– E-mail
– Printer
– Save the reports for later viewing
• Notify Function
– Send notification when report is complete or fails
– Report Logging
• Requires DB2 Web Query BASE Product to be installed
Figure 1-56. Automate report execution and distribution with Report Broker: 5733-QU3 AT911.0
Notes:
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One of the most important aspects of a BI tool is its capability for automated delivery. Many
information workers don’t have hours of time to spend looking for data, so if you can have
the data find them it makes their days much more productive.
This function can automatically deliver reports. This is known in the industry as “pushing” or
“casting” information. This can be setup by an administrator.
Delivery can be based on a schedule or through a CL interface that could be called based
on some event (for example, a trigger program). A trigger could be placed on a transaction
indicating if a stock price falls below a certain value to invoke the CL command to route a
report out to a distribution list.
This function can intelligently burst the pages of a single report out to the appropriate
people. For example you might a a Profit and Loss statement that shows the P&L for each
business unit on a different page and each page can automatically be burst out to the head
of each business unit.
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