VISTA Plus for MPE User's Guide

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Report Viewer Features
• Captures and catalogs production reports automatically for long or short-term storage.
• Provides easy organization of similar reports via VISTA folders.
• Supports both spool files and MPE files.
• Compresses reports, reducing disk storage requirements.
• Retains multiple report generations with automatic cleanup.
• Provides robust security features at the report level for viewing, deleting, and printing.
• Supports quick access to sections of a report via indices.
• Scrolls left and right on 132 and 80 character terminals, using terminal arrow keys.
• Supports reports with as many as 512 characters per line.
• Allows you to lock heading lines in the display and scroll through the rest of the report.
• Supports terminal page up and page down keys to advance to the next and previous pages.
• Provides search capability by columns, windows, and user-defined indices.
• Accepts multiple search criteria, and searches for all occurrences.
• Creates search indices while viewing reports, enabling you to create your own indices.
• Provides GOTO capability to advance to a specific page number.
• Supports multiple windows for viewing many sections of the same report on a single screen.
• Allows viewing of comments from other users via Electronic Notes.
• Ensures all users view and sign off on a report via a routing list.
• Prints report to any system printer, or a local printer.
• Enables you to download a report to your PC.
• Integrates with Sheetmate for converting reports to popular PC formats, including Excel,
DBASE, and Lotus 1-2-3.
• Supports bookmarks, enabling users to immediately return to a previous section of a report.