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HP ALLBASE/BRW Reference Manual

Requesting Reports Interactively 

Requesting a report interactively means that you start HP ALLBASE/BRW and
request the report using the Request Report screen.  If your installation
does not include the developer version, you can still run reports
interactively.  (See the section "Requesting Reports Using BRWSTART.")

To Request a Report Interactively 

   1.  Define and compile your report as described in the previous
       chapters of this manual.

   2.  From the Select Report screen, choose  Request Report.

       The name of the current report appears in the Report field of the
       Request Report screen.


            

   3.  Type the parameter type and values for the report in the
       Parameter, Type, and Values fields.  Choose  Prev Values or  Next 
       Values if you want to enter more than 9 parameters.  See the
       "Request Report Screen" section of Chapter 16 for details on each
       field of the Request Report screen.

   4.  Type the printer details in the lower part of the screen.  You can
       send the report to a printer or to a disk file.  (If you want to
       view the report online, first request the report to a disk file
       and then you can view it online.)

   5.  If you want to schedule the job, type schedule instructions in the
       Scheduled field.

   6.  Choose  Start Report.

   7.  At the prompt, type the user, account, and group names for this
       report (if they don't appear by default).

   8.  Press Enter or choose  Start Report again.

   9.  If there is a password for the user, account, or group, type it in
       the appropriate field and press Enter.

The job number for the stream job appears at the bottom of the screen.

For more information about each field on this screen and how to use this
screen, see the Request Report Screen section in Chapter 16 .


NOTE  HP ALLBASE/BRW is supplied with a special job file, called the
      standard job file, that is used to stream the job that runs the
      report.  The standard job file is held in the file BRWJ000.PUB.SYS.
      The standard job file can be used to run any HP ALLBASE/BRW
      reports.  You can modify the standard job file to your own
      requirements.  The standard job file is described in "Using Job
      Files" later in this chapter.

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