CIMS Report Writer is a full-function 4GL report writer designed to work with IBM's CIMS Mainframe chargeback system (IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager for z/OS, or ITUAM). CIMS Report Writer lets programmers and end users quickly produce production reports, custom one-time reports, analyses and queries from CIMS Mainframe data.

CIMS Report Writer is also a powerful file format utility that extracts CIMS mainframe data and formats it any way you need it-- for PC programs such as Excel, Access, Lotus etc. Or, for use in Oracle databases or other ASCII-based platforms. CIMS Report Writer can even format your CIMS mainframe data as HTML for immediate viewing on your Internet or Intranet site, or to send by e-mail.

CIMS Report Writer, designed for both programmers and end users, uses a simple free-format language. Written entirely in fast, efficient assembly language it uses far less CPU than other report writers.

CIMS Report Writer's features include:

• access multiple input files in a single run
• produce multiple outputs (reports and/or files) in a single run
• mix and match data from flat files, VSAM files and DB2 tables (with available DB2 Option)
• create your own new fields
• more than 50 built-in math, date, time and string functions
• computes statistics
• summarizes data
• full customization of the output's appearance
• unlimited number of control breaks
• reports wider than 132 characters
• prints bar graphs
• validates numeric data to avoid SOC7 ABENDs.
• PC-formatting feature reformats "non-PC-friendly" fields (such as packed, binary, and hex numbers, Julian dates, and bit fields). CIMS Report Writer easily converts these fields to standard ASCII formats that PC programs can use.
• automatically converts output to HTML-formatted "web reports", if desired