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Data reporter phases

To display a user-modified or user-created report, RMF™ makes use of ISPF tables that contain information about the report. You can control four phases to modify or create these tables and to generate and display your own reports for an RMF session.

Note: RMF uses two of these phases to generate and display standard RMF reports. Most of the unmodified standard reports, however, are not kept in ISPF tables. These tables are used primarily for user-modified and user-created reports.

The four phases and the activities performed in each are as follows:

Phase 1: RMF generates an ISPF table that contains display data for every modifiable RMF report. Monitor III data reporter tables describes these tables. The time range for the display data for your routine can be changed during this phase by calling the Data Retrieval Service (ERB3RDRS) module. See Data retrieval service (ERB3RDRS) for information about how to invoke the Data Retrieval Service.
RMF does not use the Data Retrieval Service.
Phase 2: RMF invokes your routine to allow you to modify the ISPF table generated in phase 1 in order to change an existing report or create a new report. RMF does not use this phase; you supply your own routine.
Phase 3: RMF formats the ISPF table created in phase 1 or modified in phase 2 and displays the tabular or graphic version of the report through the ISPF service TBDISPL.
Phase 4: RMF invokes your routine to allow you to perform various clean-up operations (for example, to free resources allocated for use in previous phases). RMF does not use this phase; you supply your own routine.

Note: If you decide to replace any of these phases, you must conform to the standards and externals described in this manual. If you do not, the results are unpredictable. See Installing your own phases.

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