Report Definitions window: Method of Generating Report page
This topic describes the Report Definitions window: Method of Generating
Report page in IBM Director.
Fields
- Append time stamp to file name
- When checked, creates a unique file name by adding a time stamp to the
file name.
- Generate to Viewer
- Generates a report to the Report Viewer for immediate viewing.
- Generate to File
- Saves the report to a directory. The file can be saved in the following
file types:
- .cmr
- .txt
- .html
- .xml
- .cms (Generate to SQL option)
- Generate to SQL
- The file is saved to a new SQL table or appended to an existing SQL table.
- Append
- When checked, the report is appended to an existing SQL table.
- Database URL
- Specifies the database to connect to.
- Root table name
- Specifies the name of the table to write to.
- User ID
- Specifies the user ID for access to the database.
- Password
- Specifies the password associated with the password.
- Backup up existing files
- When selected, renames any existing reports with a dot and number. For
example Hourly Report.cmr becomes Hourly Report.cmr.1,
- Number of backups
- Limits the number of backups to the selected number. Backups earlier than
this number are deleted.
- Set destination directory
- Saves all selected file types to the selected destination directory on
the Director server.
- Generate Bottleneck events
- Writes the files only when bottlenecks occur.