Writing a Report › Types of Reporting Commands

Types of Reporting Commands

The Report Writer uses two types of history reporting commands. You also use two special commands for the reports themselves.

• The two types of history reporting commands are as follows:
  • Global commands
  • Report commands
• Special commands for writing reports are as follows.
  • END command

    Tells the Report Writer that the report description is complete. Each report must end with the END command. After the END command, you can start another report. For each new report, the variables you set in the previous report are no longer in effect. If you want to use the same variables, you enter them again. Values set by global commands, however, remain in effect unless overridden by another command.

  • RUN command

    Starts executing the reports you described. When the Report Writer encounters RUN, it stops reading your commands and starts writing reports. Commands after the RUN command are ignored; so always make RUN the last command given to the Report Writer.