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Report Generator

The Report Writer Report Generator controls the generation of reports. Reports can be generated in two ways:

• Directly, on request by a user or application
• Automatically by the Schedule facility of Report Writer

The report generator reads the control information and report layout from the MODS file and calls the service procedure to access data from the application database. If there is a report exit associated with this report definition, the generator calls it to do any specialized processing of data, then passes the formatted data to PSM for printing.