User`s guide

Note: You can also add footnotes.
c. Exit the Set Titles and Footnotes window.
Select OK.
3. Save the customized report definition in interactive form.
From the Manage Report Definition window, follow this path
File -> Save Report Definition
IT Service Vision displays the Save Report Definition window.
If the original report definition was supplied, the Name and Description are copied from the supplied report definition.
To identify the custom report definition uniquely, change at least one character in the the name. For naming conventions,
see Shared Appendix 7: Supplied Reports Naming Convention
, which includes information about naming conventions
for user-created report definitions.
If the original report definition was not supplied, fill in the Name and Description; for example, the name Faxexamp
and the description Fax example.
Select folder ADMIN.ITSVRPTS.
Then select OK. IT Service Vision creates the custom report definition in the ITSVRPTS catalog in the ADMIN library
of your PDB and returns you to the Manage Report Definitions window.
Select
Close
to return to the IT Service Vision main window.
4. Save the customized report definition in batch/background form.
a. Modify the report definition so that it sends the report to a catalog entry instead of to a monitor display.
Follow this path:
Manage Report Definitions -> Locals -> Report Output Options -> SAS Catalog
In the Output Name field, type the report name. In the Description field, type the report description. In the
Location field, type ADMIN.
report_name . Then select OK.
Where
report_name is the name of your report.
b. Then write out the report definition by following this path from the report definition’s main window:
Locals -> Preview Macro Source
IT Service Vision displays the PREVIEW window. This window contains the source statements that generate the
report.
Save the modified report definition to a file by selecting File, Save as, and Write to a File.
IT Service Vision displays the Save As - PREVIEW window. Adjust the Save in field to the name of a directory
that you can use to save the report definition. (In the next task, when you are setting up your daily production job,
you will refer to this file.) Adjust the File name field to the name of the report definition. Then select Save.
IT Service Vision writes the report definition in the form that is for batch use (and with the parameters that will
direct a generated report to the ADMIN library).
c. To return to the Reporting tab, select File, End, and Close.