Rational Developer for System z

Generating reports

This topic describes how to generate reports from the Software Analysis Results view.

Generating a report for a list of results

To generate a report for a list of results:

  1. In the left pane, select the history containing the results that you are interested in.
  2. In right pane:
    1. Select any line in the list of results.
    2. On the toolbar click Generate a report for the current selection.
  3. In the Software Analyzer Reporting wizard:
    1. Select a report, such as COBOL Code Review.
    2. Select a type of report, HTML report or PDF report.
      Note: If you select HTML report see Saving an HTML report to the file system.
    3. Click OK.

The report is generated.

Generating a report for an analysis history

To generate a report for an analysis history:

  1. In the left pane:
    1. Select the analysis history that you are interested in.
    2. On the toolbar click Generate reports for historical scan.
  2. In the Software Analyzer Reporting wizard:
    1. Select a report, such as Analysis Summary.
    2. Select a type of report, HTML report or PDF report.
      Note: If you select HTML report see Saving an HTML report to the file system.
    3. Click OK.

The report is generated.

Note: History reports for COBOL analysis are not supported at this time.

Saving an HTML report to the file system

To save an HTML report to the file system you must either save it from an external browser or copy the HTML source from an internal browser to an external file.

To save an HTML report from an external browser:
  1. Select web browser output to go to an external browser:
    1. Click Window > Preferences > General > Web Browser.
    2. Select Use external web browser and select a browser.
    3. Close the Preferences window.
  2. Generate the report in HTML format.
    • The report should be displayed in the external Web browser.
    Note: In some configurations the HTML output is not directed to the external browser. If this occurs, use the internal browser.
  3. From the browser's toolbar, click File > Save and follow the instructions to save the HTML output to the file system.
To save an HTML report from an internal browser:
  1. Select web browser output to go to an internal browser:
    1. Click Window > Preferences > General > Web Browser.
    2. Select Use internal web browser and select a browser.
    3. Close the Preferences window.
  2. Generate the report in HTML format:
    • The report should be displayed in the internal web browser.
  3. Copy the HTML output from the internal Web browser to a file in the file system.
    1. Right-click the report in the internal web browser.
    2. Click View Source.
    3. The default system editor, for example, Microsoft NotePad, automatically opens and displays the HTML source.
    4. From the default system editor, save the HTML source to an HTML file on the local file system.


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