Creating reports with the Interactive Report Facility

The Interactive Report Facility (IRF) provides a dialog, though a series of panels, that guides you through the specifications for a report.

After you specified a report, your specifications are validated and the IRF automatically generates a batch report command stream with JCL statements and the commands, subcommands, options and keywords that match your selections for the requested reports. This job can be executed in foreground or background mode to produce the report.

The IRF is invoked from the IBM OMEGAMON for DB2 Performance Expert on z/OS main menu by selecting option 1 (Create and execute reporting commands).