Creating formatted record reports

You can use the Transaction Analysis Workbench ISPF dialog to create batch reports that reproduce the formatting that the ISPF dialog displays when you browse an individual log record. These batch reports are known as formatted record reports.

Procedure

  1. On the Transaction Analysis Workbench Primary Option Menu, select option 4 Process.
    Your personal ad hoc list of log files is displayed.
  2. If the list does not already include the log files that you want to process, insert those log files now.
    For details on inserting log files on this panel, see Browsing logs in your personal ad hoc list.

    You can create a report either from one or more data sets, or from a single log stream. You cannot create a report from a mix of data sets and log streams, or from multiple log streams.

  3. Type SUB next to either a single log stream or one or more data set names, and then press Enter.
    The Submit Batch Request window opens.
  4. Optionally, select a filter to limit the records included in the report.
  5. Specify a report interval.

    When reporting on data sets, the interval is optional: if you do not specify an interval, all records of the data sets are included (unless filtered). When reporting on a log stream, you must specify at least the start of the interval.

  6. Type / next to Report.
  7. Select one or more report formats.

    If you are reporting on an OPERLOG, the report formatting options are ignored: instead, the generated JCL uses the OPERLOG parameter of the REPORT command to request an OPERLOG report.

  8. Press Enter to generate the JCL for the request.
    The JCL is displayed in the ISPF editor.
  9. On the ISPF editor command line, enter SUB to submit the job.
  10. Use your site-specific procedures to view the job output.