Section 2, Task 3: Customize Your Report Definitions

In this task, you will customize the report definitions that you used in Section 1.

1. Your production PDB is the active PDB.
   
   

   MVS	PDB Admin -> Manage PDBs/Switch PDB -> select the production PDB -> ItemActions -> Activate -> File -> End
   UNIX	Administration -> manage PDBs -> select the production PDB -> Activate -> WRITE -> OK -> OK
   WNT	Administration -> manage PDBs -> select the production PDB -> Activate -> WRITE -> OK -> OK

2. You have decided on storage locations for your customized report definitions.

   Report definitions exist in two forms, interactive and batch/background.

   The interactive form is ready to run in the IT Service Vision GUI. This form is, in effect, a list of the parameters values that are to be inserted in the report definition window. Another name for the interactive from is the report (window) definition.

   If you run that report definition from the report definition window, IT Service Vision creates the source code that invokes the appropriate report macro with those parameters and executes that macro invocation. This macro invocation is the batch/background form of the report definition, and another name for it is the source (code for invoking the report) macro.

1. Display one of the report definitions that you used in Section 1.
   
   
2. Customize the title generated by that report definition.
   
   
3. Save the customized report definition in interactive form.
   
   
4. Save the customized report definition in batch/background form.
   
   
5. Repeat these actions for the other report definitions that you used in Section 1.
   
   
6. Customize the menu item (icon) that displays batch-generated reports.
   
   

Section 2, Task 3: Customize Your Report Definitions