reporting strategy bill pearce ventura county ccd

Reporting StrategyBill Pearce

Ventura County CCD

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In honor of

STAR WARS III

“Revenge of the Sith”

This presentation is brought to you by the

evil…

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DARTH TATER!

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Considerations

• Replace Oracle Reports

• Use GSASECR security

• Run through job submission – parameter sets

• Create text files for download to Excel

• Create Adobe files for security

• $$$$$ COST $$$$$

• Decided on sql*plus!

What is thy bidding, my

Master

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Process Description

• xYSxxxx Local Reports can be printed, output to DATABASE, pdf, or text

• All Baseline C reports can be printed, output to DATABASE, or pdf

• COBOL reports can be printed, output to DATABASE, or selectively to pdf

• Uses text2pdf.c program• DATABASE, pdf, text create GUBOUTP

only

Impressive.Most

Impressive

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Reporting Schematic

xYSxxxxLocal Report

pdf

Baseline C, COBOL Report

text2pdfGUBOUTP

Header RecordOnly

databaseor text

database

Report FileOn server

Web ReportViewer

Don’t be too proud of this technological

terror you’ve constructed

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SQL*Plus Reports

Created long ago in a galaxy far, far away (and enhanced by CLPCCD) – changes:

• Defined as “Procedure” in GJAJOBS• Gjajobs.shl calls common grunsql.shl

(unless .shl of same name is found)• Same select creates all 3 types of reports –

creates/calls .sql script during runtime to change settings, breaks, totals, etc. for .lis, .pdf, .txt file

• Performance much improved over OR

This facility is crude but it should be adequate to

freeze Skywalker for his journey to the Emperor.

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column c_text_file noprint new_value cn_text_fileselect lower('&cn_job_name') || '_' || &cn_one_up_no || '.sql' c_text_filefrom dual;spool $HOME/&cn_text_fileselect 'clear breaks' from dual where upper('&cn_printer') = 'TEXT'union allselect 'clear computes' from dual where upper('&cn_printer') = 'TEXT'union allselect 'set pagesize 50000' from dual where upper('&cn_printer') = 'TEXT'union allselect 'ttitle off' from dual where upper('&cn_printer') = 'TEXT'union allselect 'set underline off' from dual where upper('&cn_printer') = 'TEXT'union allselect 'set pagesize 66' from dual where upper('&cn_printer') = 'PDF'union allselect 'ttitle on' from dual where upper('&cn_printer') != 'TEXT';spool offstart $HOME/&cn_text_file!rm $HOME/&cn_text_file

I am altering the deal. Pray I don’t alter it any further.

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Web Report Viewer

• Part of Employee Self-Service

• Report retention determined by GTVSDAX

• Report can be copied to other user(s) or manually deleted

• Clock starts over when report is copied to another user

• Nightly cleanup script deletes GUBOUTP, server files (uses external tables)

Indeed you are

Powerful.

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Web Report Viewer (continued)

• Will replace email to “push” reports

• Used to deliver reports from Workflow automatically

• Plans to add link to Banner 7.0 menu to sign on automatically to Report Viewer

There’ll be no-one to stop us

this time.

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I sense something. A presence I’ve

not felt since…

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Several fighters

have broken off from

the main

group. Come with me.

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All too easy…

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There’s no escape. Don’t

make me destroy you.

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I must obey my Master.