Creating reports about the long-term plan

The long-term planning batch programs generate these reports:

A list of occurrences by run date
Workload by workstation
Run date and error reports

You can also produce reports from the long-term plan by selecting option 5 (print) or option 6 (print one) from the SELECTING LONG TERM PLAN BATCH JOB menu (EQQLBATP - Selecting long-term plan batch job ). Both functions extract data from the long-term plan and produce a report showing occurrences of the selected applications. Option 5 generates a batch job that produces a report for all occurrences in the long-term plan, whereas option 6 produces a report for one application.

Figure 1. EQQLEXTP - Printing the long-term plan, all applications

 EQQLPRAP ------- PRINTING THE LONG TERM PLAN - ALL APPLICATIONS --------
 Command ===>

 Enter/Change data below:

 Long term plan start  : 13/01/27
 Long term plan end    : 13/04/30


 Start of print:
  DATE              ===>  13/02/03   Date in format YY/MM/DD
  TIME              ===>  23.14      Time in format HH.MM

 End of print:
  DATE              ===>  13/04/30   Date in format YY/MM/DD
  TIME              ===>  24.00      Time in format HH.MM

 REPORT TYPE        ===>  F          F - Full report
                                     D - Dependencies only

 SORT ORDER         ===>  I          I - Input arrival date
                                     O - Owner id and input arrival date
                                     A - Owner id and application id

The report provides detailed information that you can inspect before using the long-term plan as input to daily planning.

The full report lists all occurrences in the long-term plan. It shows application IDs, owner IDs, input arrival times and deadlines for the application, priorities, application text, and external dependencies. This report also lists the total duration of the work that is planned for each workstation.

You can request two types of report. Specify F for a full report, or D (dependencies) for a report on predecessors and successors. For each dependency, the dependency report contains the optional text string called reason for dependency. In the application description, you can specify whether this string should always be printed or should be printed only when the dependency is resolved between occurrences on different dates.

You can specify these sort orders:

I: Run date, input arrival time, application ID
O: Owner ID, run date, input arrival time, application ID
A: Owner ID, application ID

When you request a printout of the long-term plan, you also get histograms showing the planned workstation usage for the period of the printout for each workstation.

For examples of the various reports that are generated, see Long-term plan reports.