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XENTIS/REPORT


Overview


Business success comes from improving quality, reducing lead-times, eliminating waste and reducing cost. It also comes from making good business decisions, based on accurate, timely and focused information.

XENTIS provides both power and simplicity - a combination no other report generator can match. XENTIS guides you through the report design process. You don't even have to worry about report formatting. Just select the items you wish to see and XENTIS does the rest.

Creating even very complex or unusual reports is exceptionally easy. From the same report design screen, perform complicated calculations, even on sub-totals. Or select data based on complex comparisons. XENTIS makes the most sophisticated requirements easy to implement.

Fast


XENTIS provides information you need, when you need it, instead of weeks from now when your overloaded Information Systems staff has time.

Even for complex reports, concept becomes reality with a few keystrokes. Will your report meet your needs? Try it ... on the spot. Close, but not quite? Make simple changes and run it again. XENTIS allows you to design reports on the fly, reducing both design and implementation time. As your needs change, your reports can be changed, or cloned, in seconds.

Simple


From a single, simple screen, you perform every task necessary to create or change reports and inquiries.

XENTIS uses a "point-and-shoot" method of data selection. It displays a list of views, files, tables, fields, and calculations for you to choose from. To select what you want on your report, all you do is highlight an item and press a button. Its streamlined approach allows a non-typist to develop reports as quickly as a typing whiz.

XENTIS utilizes a windowed screen for report design. Its WYSIWYG design window will show you exactly what your report will look like. Instead of trial and error, XENTIS uses trial and success.

Powerful


XENTIS is so powerful, it's used by thousands of software development professionals. It can produce reports previously available only through the efforts of a team of experienced programmers.

With XENTIS, you can create columnar reports, side-by-side reports, mailing lists and labels, and reports to print on pre-printed forms.

Simple or elaborate calculations are performed with ease. You can sort or select information on the results of your calculations. Calculations can be conditional, compounded or done on accumulated values. You can even sort on accumulated values, to produce reports that rank performance of your sales, product, personnel, or anything else you can imagine.

Helpful


XENTIS guides you through successful report creation. It asks simple questions about how you want your report to took and run. With each question, you see a mini-help window that describes the question in more detail. If you need more information, just press the HELP key. XENTIS provides a user-controlled scrolling help window. As for your "But what about ... ?" questions, related topics are easily accessed by touching a key.

Still have questions? Our experienced and responsive customer support staff is ready to serve you.

Flexible


Behind XENTIS is a vast set of user-defined options that give you complete control over your reports.

You can customize the user-interface. For new or casual users, have them answer a few, simple questions and their report is done. For advanced users, you can unleash the full power of XENTIS.

Customize the output to look just the way you want. Build reports that can select, sort, and look different each time you run them. Customize headings, sub-totals and totals. Lengthen or shorten fields. Create on-screen inquiries or hard-copy reports.

Integrated


XENTIS can integrate information from diverse databases with ease. XENTIS allows you to blend information from all of your application systems into a single report. You can simultaneously access RMS, Rdb, DBMS, Sybase and Ingres data bases.

XENTIS also lets you integrate information from your host computer with all major spreadsheet, graphics and word-processing packages.

Secure


With XENTIS, your information is as secure as you want it to be. Users access only what they are authorized to see. Protect sensitive information from unauthorized access by securing data bases, files, records or fields.

Better than affordable


XENTIS combines superior power and ease-of-use with the best price / performance ratio available.
Want more? Faster development. Reduced design time. Immediate report changes. End-user report creation. Reduced reporting backlogs. Slashed reporting costs. Immediate productivity.

XENTIS is the only reporting tool you'll need.

Bar Code Interface


XENTIS/Report can also generate bar codes within a report. It allows you to format and print reports and labels that display bar codes - with equipment you already own.

XENTIS' bar coding module, X-Bar, provides you with all the tools necessary for you to generate reports of your own design that will display bar codes on the printer you already own. You don't have to develop custom programs or purchase expensive equipment to get the advantages of bar coding. You won't even have to learn how to use new tools. The one you already know how to use, XENTIS, will do it for you.

To print bar codes on XENTIS-generated reports and labels, all you have to do is tell XENTIS which data elements are to be displayed as bar codes. XENTIS will automatically generate your report and convert the appropriate data items for bar coding. When you print the report, bar codes automatically appear.

Printer Compatibility: X-Bar works with a wide range of industry-standard printers. You don't have to purchase an expensive, special printer to print bar codes with X-Bar.

Bar Code Formats: X-Bar generates a wide range of industry-standard bar codes. Among them is the postnet bar code used by the U. S. Post Office. Streamlining mailing, including the use of postnet, bar codes when doing bulk mailing, has the potential of saving companies hundreds to thousands of dollars. Regardless of your industry or activity, X-Bar can provide the bar code you need.

Supported Bar Code Formats: UPC-A bar code, UPC-E bar code, EAN/JAN-13 bar code, EAN/JAN-8 bar code, CODE39 bar code (also known as 3 of 9), CODE93 bar code, Extended CODE39 bar code, Extended CODE93 bar code, Interleaved 2 of 5 bar code, CODE128 bar code, CODABAR bar code, POSTNET bar code (also known as ZIP+4), UCC128 bar code, Health Industry Bar Code (based on CODE39), MSI Plessy bar code.

Supported Printers: Epson 9 pin printer, Epson 24 pin printer, IBM Proprinter 9 pin printer, IBM Proprinter 24 pin printer, Toshiba 24 pin printer, Okidata Microline Standard printer, HP LaserJet 150 dpi printer, HP LaserJet 300 dpi printer, HP DeskJet 150 dpi printer, HP DeskJet 300 dpi printer, HP PaintJet 180 dpi printer, HP LaserJet 150 dpi compatibility mode, HP LaserJet 300 dpi compatibility mode, and any PostScript printer (requires ScriptServer printing software).


XENTIS/Report Feature Summary

General Features

Automatic default report design
Supports columnar reports, pre-printed forms, mailing labels
Automatic or user-defined report format, headings, data element lengths, formats and spacing Automatic or manual visual breaks on reports
Customized prompts / run-time variables
User-definable menus / all-purpose menu system
Completed reports and inquiries can be added as menu items
On-line, immediate and deferred batch (queued) execution
Optional report execution directly from DCL
Test-mode to try reports before full execution
User-defined data types supported
Database views (including RMS) supported to simplify report creation
Multiple RMS Primary files supported - allows archive file integration
Conditional expressions and calculations
Calculations using numbers, dales and text
User-defined calculations at sub-total levels
Can be "called" from user-developed programs
Up to 1,000 data fields on a single report

User Interface

What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get on-screen report layout
Point-and-shoot input selection
User-modifiable, interactive dialogue
Intelligent defaults
On-line "one touch" help with related-topic navigation
Macro definition for repetitive commands
Optional command-line interface
Optional text editor input
Automatic switching of viewport between 80 and 132 columns

Report Formats

Traditional with automatic default report and column headings, sub-totals and totals
Complex, user-defined multi-format data lines (up to 100 per report)
Columnar with vertical headings and 1 data column per record.
Side-by-side headings and data
Mailing labels
Pre-printed forms
Sort-on-subtotals for analysis of cumulative top or bottom performers
Oversize reports (up to 255 characters wide)
Multi-line headings, detail and sub-totals
Detail and Summary reports from the same report format

Data Selection

Selection based on record content, calculations, or the content of other files.
Variable with run-time input
Optional record count limits for testing
Beginning / ending record ranges for efficiency
Re-run reports without RMS data base re-query
Selection based on existence of other records

Sorting

Sorting on data elements or calculation results
Mixed ascending and descending by element
Variable sorting, based on run-time input
Sorting on accumulated values for ranking reports


Output Options

On-line to terminal
Printed output ASCII text files
Transfer format for Lotus 123, Word Perfect, Excel, and more
Report definitions can be included in printed output for quick reference
Optional suppression of detail, titles, headings, and form-feeds

Integration

Simultaneous access to all supported data bases
Multiple primary RMS files accessible for archive data integration
Transfer files to decision support and word processing applications
Optional creation of command files to run reports from other applications
Addition of foreign applications to XENTIS menu

Compatibility


Databases: RMS Indexed (including segmented keys), Relative, and Sequential files. Rdb, Ingres, Sybase, DBMS-32.

Data Dictionaries: XENTIS/Dictionary, Digital CDD or CDD/Plus, Sybase, Ingres, MAXCIM ECB.

Optional Modules

XENTIS/Dictionary - data dictionary
XENTIS/Edit - record maintenance utility
XENTIS/File - file output utility
XENTIS/Update - mass-change utility
XENTIS/Model - spreadsheet interface
XENTIS/Word - word processor interface

Services


Customer support: New releases, monthly newsletters, 800 "hot line" support.

Training: Our office or yours, hands-on exercises

Other: Consulting and custom system development


System Requirements

OpenVMS V5.2 or above and 12,000 blocks of disk space

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