Introduction to Control-M Reports

Control-M Reports enables you to create and generate ad hoc reports from data collected from the Control-M/EM database. These reports provide information on definitive and operational issues in your Control-M environment.

To create a report, see Creating a report from template.

Control-M Reports includes the following categories:

• Active reports
• Batch Impact Manager reports
• Job Definition reports
• History reports

  NOTE: History was previously called Forecast.

• File Transfer reports

For more information on each report type, see Report categories.

Each category is organized into report types. For example, the Active category includes Alerts, Audit, Active jobs and Extreme Peaks Usage report types. Each report is unique, depending on the report type you choose. You can customize each report with the following options:

• Filters: Define what data you want to display in the report. The filters can be specific parameter values, specific Control-M/Servers, and specific time ranges. The filter options vary depending on the report type you choose. For more information on the different filter options, see Filter options.
• Columns: Choose which columns you want to appear in the report. Each column is a specific field.
• View: Customize your view by defining how your selected fields are grouped and sorted in the report.

After you have defined the criteria for your report, you can generate it, as described in Generating a report. Depending on user authorizations, not all data is displayed in the report results.

NOTE: Control-M Reports supports Acrobat (*.pdf) and Comma Separated Values (*.csv) output.

Control-M Reports uses the Report service in Control-M Automation API, which enables you to generate ad hoc reports, which are in JSON format. The data is collected from the Control-M/EM database and is displayed in a report type. These reports provide information on definitive and operational issues in your Control-M environment. To define a Control-M Report job, see Control-M Reports job definition.

The reports are stored on the Control-M/EM Server. The Administrator can change the number of days to retain the report, the number of concurrent reports that can be generated and various other options, as described in Report parameters.

Control-M Reports replaces the Control-M Reporting Facility. Control-M Reporting Facility used Crystal Reports but these reports can no longer run in version 9.0.18 and above and need to be converted to Control-M Reports. For information about converting your data and reports to Control-M Reports, see Control-M Reporting Facility migration. Migration includes utilities which need to run in the old environment where the Crystal Reports engine is installed.

For a comparison of the Control-M Reporting Facility and Control-M Reports, see Control-M Reporting Facility comparison.