Report
Archive and Distribution (RAAD) is a comprehensive report distribution
and control system that provides a wide array of features, allowing
you to manage and control
your spooling environment. RAAD is an online application that
runs under CICS. You can customize RAAD and its components
online
through easy-to-use 3270 screens. User-written CICS application
programs can spool
reports to RAAD’s internal queue (SPL) or to any POWER queue.
RAAD can
automatically insert report head and/or feet that have been defined
by your application
program. RAAD contains a special PC program that enables you to
easily download
mainframe reports to your PC using virtually any 3270 emulator
on your PC.
 Features
• Accessing spooled reports from:
--The POWER Reader (RDR), Punch (PUN),
List (LST) or Transmit
(XMT) queues
--The VM reader (VMR), Punch (VMP) List (VML) queues
--From
an existing CSI-ARCHIVE dataset (ARC)
• An online spooling facility that you can use to submit batch
jobs for file
backups or other purposes
• Archiving reports automatically, using the POWER External
Device Writer
support. This requires a minimum of JCL and/or procedural change
for your
installation.
• Archiving POWER LST queue output from any program
• Storing reports in a DASD efficient manner, meaning that the
reports are
compressed to conserve disk space
• Retaining 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
--Periodically scanning 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.
• Selecting reports based on several fields maintained by operating
system
spoolers; some of these are:
--Job name
--Class
--Disposition
--Priority
--Remote
ID
• Origin and Destination Node
• POWER user information
from the LST card
• Viewing reports online or printing to any network-attached
printer
• Viewing the output of executing VSE jobs while they are being
generated
• Providing extensive data-search capabilities
• Viewing reports in character or hexadecimal format
• Report viewing for all 3270 models
• Reformatting reports by column when viewed and/or printed--this feature
can prevent unauthorized users from having access to privileged
data.
• Managing spooler queues from an easy-to-use 3270 application
program
• Supporting all printers attached to CICS, and TCP/IP printers
(LPD) if you
are running TCP/IP for VSE
• Providing access to reports and to RAAD functions by individual
users with
RAAD User Profiles
• Preventing or allowing access to spooler queues by report
details such as job
name, class, origin and destination
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Conversion Info:
RAAD Replaces:
CA-Deliver Output Management for VSE
CA-RAPS
CA-Express Delivery
INFOPAC
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