Reporting Components across SAS Products and Applications

When working with batch reporting for SAS IT Resource Management, you might need to work with several of the reporting components that are described in this chapter. These components are accessible in various SAS products and applications that you use to create, modify, and view SAS IT Resource Management reports.

For example, to modify a supplied report might require that you access ITRM Report Center, SAS Enterprise Guide, and the SAS IT Resource Management client to complete modifications for the reporting process. Access to these clients enables you to do the following tasks:

view the properties of a report in ITRM Report Center
identify the reporting components that correspond to that report
modify the reporting components as needed

For more information, see How to Create or Modify Your Own Batch Reports.

The following three figures show the relationships of the SAS IT Resource Management reporting components.

The Report Properties dialog box of the Performance Report transformation can be accessed from the Report Definitions tab of that transformation. It displays the SAS Enterprise Guide project, process flow, and Report Definition task names. It also provides the domain category and information map (the data source from which the report is generated) that are associated with a report. This report metadata enables you to locate the corresponding SAS Enterprise Guide project, process flow, information map, and ITRM Report Definition task from which the report was designed and created. This report metadata also enables you to use the SAS IT Resource Management client to locate the domain category, information map, report job, and Performance Report transformation that are created and deployed to produce the report.

Select the Report Definitions tab of the Performance Report transformation to view its properties.

Properties of the Performance Report Transformation in the SAS IT Resource Management Client

1	domain category
2	IT data mart name
3	reporting job name
4	information map or data source name
5	ITRM Performance Report transformation name
6	ITRM report definition name

Note: Select a report definition. Then, scroll down the Properties of report definition section of the previous dialog box to see the other properties of the Performance Report transformation. For example, you would be able to see the SAS Enterprise Guide project name and the SAS Enterprise Guide process flow name.

In ITRM Report Center, click the properties icon

to display the Expanded Report Properties

Expanded Report Properties Viewed in ITRM Report Center

1	domain category
2	IT data mart name
3	job name
4	SAS Enterprise Guide project name
5	information map or data source name
6	SAS Enterprise Guide process flow name
7	ITRM Performance Report transformation name
8	ITRM report definition name

In SAS Enterprise Guide, open a SAS Enterprise Guide project to view the information map or data source, process flow, and ITRM Report Definition task that are associated with a report.

Project and Process Flow in SAS Enterprise Guide

1	SAS Enterprise Guide project name
2	information map or data source name
3	SAS Enterprise Guide process flow name
4	ITRM report definition task name

Note: To view comprehensive lists of the report properties for performance and exception reports, see Appendix 1, “Report Properties,” in the SAS IT Resource Management 3.5: Report Center Guide.