Data Management

RAADReport Distribution Manager

RAAD (Report Archive and Distribution) is a comprehensive report distribution and control system that allows you to manage and control your spooling environment.

• Access spooled reports from
  • The POWER Reader (RDR), Punch (PUN), List (LST), or Transmit (XMT) queues
  • The VM reader (VMR), Punch (VMP), and List (VML) queues
  • An existing CSI-ARCHIVE dataset (ARC)
• Store reports in a DASD-efficient manner, compressed to conserve disk space
• Retain reports on the Archive Dataset according to user-defined criteria. Any combination of the following can be used:
  • Number of days
    
  • Number of generations
    
  • Specific retain-to date
• Select reports based on several fields maintained by operating system spoolers. Some of these are
  • Job name
  • Class
  • Disposition
  • Priority
  • Remote ID
• View reports online or print to any system-attached printer
• Submit batch jobs for file backups or other purposes with an online spooling facility
• Archive reports automatically, using the POWER External Device Writer support. This requires a minimum of a JCL and/or procedural change for your installation.
• Prevent or allow access to spooler queues by report details such as job name, class, origin, and destination
• Periodically scan your spooler queues. As reports are encountered during the scan, they can be archived, printed to any system-attached printer, or used as a trigger to cause JCL to be submitted to the POWER RDR queue.
• View the output of executing z/VSE jobs while they are being generated
• Reformat reports by column when reports are viewed and/or printed. This feature can prevent unauthorized users from having access to privileged data.
• Archive POWER LST queue output from any program
• View reports in character or hexadecimal format
• Provide access to reports and to RAAD functions for individual users with RAAD User Profiles
• Report viewing for all 3270 models
• Manage spooler queues from an easy-to-use 3270 application
• RAAD supports all printers attached to CICS, and TCP/IP printers (LPD) if you are running CSI’s TCP/IP for VSE