The sorting feature pertains to the entire report. When the default sort value (Date/Time Submitted) is changed, the new primary sort becomes your choice, but the secondary sort is always fixed as Date/Time Submitted. To resort the list, select the Sort by option:

The status of deferred requests are organized under the following sections within the interface:

Column headings provide information about the Standard Report including the date and time the Standard Report was submitted, the domain of origin, a description of the report (the report name), an expiration indicator, and an Options heading for options within the Deferred Report Status interface.

When you select the Deferred Status option, the status for all the deferred requests submitted by your Managed Reporting user ID is retrieved. Depending on how Managed Reporting is configured, deferred status may be coming from multiple WebFOCUS Reporting Servers on various platforms. If credentials are required for the connections, you are prompted by the WebFOCUS Dynamic Server System Signon feature. You can view the status of all the deferred requests submitted by your Managed Reporting user ID, but can only delete, view, save, stop, or review parameters for deferred requests submitted with an identical WebFOCUS Reporting Server user ID.

The number of days until expiration appears next to each report. On the last day, the value Today appears.

The following image shows the results of a deferred status request, run on the afternoon of Friday, April 29. (The current date appears in the status bar at the top of the page.) Each report is listed with the time remaining before it is deleted from the WebFOCUS Reporting Server. The time remaining is based on 24-hour intervals (rather than whole days), beginning with the time that the report was submitted. For example, the last report shown on the list will be deleted shortly after 1:10 pm on April 30, not at midnight on April 29.

If a deferred report is not saved or deleted prior to its expiration, the output is automatically deleted from the WebFOCUS Reporting Server's dfm_dir directory and the deferred report is moved to the Unknown status tab in the Deferred Report Status interface. From here, you can only delete the orphaned report.

If deferred output expiration is not configured on your WebFOCUS Reporting Server, then the value Never appears next to each report under the Expires In column.

Note: This setting does not affect deferred output saved to your My Report area.

Saved Deferred Reports that utilize WebFOCUS features which create temporary files such as OLAP, On-demand paging, and redirected formats are subject to expiration as defined by the WebFOCUS Client parameter, EXPIRE_REPORTS (located in cgivars.wfs). See the WebFOCUS Security and Administration manual for information on the EXPIRE_REPORTS parameter that controls temporary file expiration and the mime.wfs file that defines reports formats and whether they use redirection.

Sorting by WebFOCUS Reporting Server user ID enables you to bring deferred reports you want to interact with to the top of the list. At the same time, the deferred reports that you cannot interact with are pushed to the bottom of the list and sorted alphabetically.

This is a special sort. Regardless of the setting for a>z or z>a when the sort value is Server ID, deferred reports for the current ID appear at the top. These are followed, in sort order, by deferred reports for other Server IDs, if any exist. The Server ID automatically appears in the Options column.

You may see deferred reports listed that you are not allowed to interact with if they:

• Are inconsistent with the case that you use when you log on with your WebFOCUS Reporting Server ID.
• Connect to different WebFOCUS Reporting Servers, or to the same WebFOCUS Reporting Server at different times with different WebFOCUS Reporting Server user IDs.

The following image shows a sample Deferred Report Status window with three reports that have no options for interaction.

You can set the automatic refresh interval to any value. The default is 5 seconds and there is no maximum value.

You must access the Deferred Report Status interface to view deferred reports.

The Deferred Report Status interface enables you to retrieve parameters submitted with a deferred request. You access parameters by opening the Deferred Report Status interface and clicking the parameters button for the report of your choice. The parameters button is not available when the deferred request is submitted from within a report development tool such as Report Assistant or Graph Assistant.

You can also change the parameters associated with a report and submit the report to run deferred with the new parameters you specified. WebFOCUS generates your report again using the new parameters and does not overwrite your original report request.

You can save Deferred Receipt reports to the Managed Reporting Repository, if your administrator has set the run-only privilege for you. The report output is saved to your directory in the Managed Reporting Repository by domain. When your deferred report is saved to the Managed Reporting Repository, it is removed from the Deferred Report Status interface.

When you save a deferred report, a new group folder, Deferred Reports Output, is created under the My Reports tab within the Domain of origin as shown in this image. There is one group folder, Deferred Reports Output, for each domain. WebFOCUS lists your saved deferred reports (including Custom Reports) under the Deferred Reports Output group folder and adds "Output of" as well as the date and time the My Report or Custom Report was saved to the report name.

From the Deferred Status Interface, you can delete tickets for all report status types using the Delete drop-down list located in the toolbar at the top of the interface. The drop-down list provides options to delete All, All Completed, All Running, All Queued, All Expired, and All Unknown reports, but only when one or more reports exist for that status type in the Deferred Status Interface. If a report status type is not displayed in the interface, the corresponding status option does not appear in the Delete drop-down list.

You can also delete individual tickets using the Delete button located in the Options column next to each report.

The following image shows the Deferred Status Interface with the Delete drop-down list expanded showing the available options.

For unknown tickets, the status column shows:

• Expired if the report has expired and is no longer stored on the Server.
• Unknown for cases where the status can not be determined, including situations where the server is not running so a connection could not be made to determine the status.

  Note: For Unknown reports, the Options column displays the Server ID that submitted the report along with the Current ID.

The Deferred Status interface presents the user with a delete confirmation message before deleting a deferred report that is in Completed, Running, or Queued states. (A confirmation message is already displayed for deferred reports in Unknown status.)

When you click the delete button from the Deferred Status page, you are prompted to confirm the delete before the deferred report is actually deleted. A similar confirmation message is used for all deferred reports, but the message varies depending on the conditions.

The following list shows confirmation messages and the associated conditions:

Each of the deletion confirmation messages also displays the date and time the deferred report was submitted, and the description that is displayed in the Deferred Status interface.