Approving reports

The Report Approval feature enables the implementation of an approval and workflow process for reports in the Control-D repository. Administrators can assign reports for approval to a group of 1 or more users, defined by a unique Approval name in the Approval tree. A report assigned to an Approval name, can be approved by any user defined in the Approval name, as long as that specific user has permission to view that report.

• For more information on approving reports, see the Control-D/WebAccess Server User Guide.
• For information on granting permissions to users to view reports, see the "Control-D and Control-V Basic Definition Security Calls" section in the INCONTROL for z/OS Security Guide and the "Defining the Recipient Tree" section in the "Implementation Hints" chapter in the Control-D and Control-V User Guide.

You can choose to assign reports for approval to either an individual group of users or to multiple groups of users, as described in Assigning approval to multiple groups.

The Report Approval feature is beneficial in:

• Preventing reports from being published before approval
• Facilitating a workflow process