LVReports Overview
LaserVault Reports (LVReports) is a secure server application for archiving and indexing all of your computer-generated reports, including PDF output, giving you instant access to your reports. It includes a browser-based interface for retrieving, printing, faxing, and emailing entire reports or selected pages of your reports.
High Functionality and Tight Integration
LVReports seamlessly integrates with numerous software applications hosted on IBM Mainframe, IBM Power System (IBM i, iSeries, AS/400), Unix, or any other host system. Functionality includes:
- audit logs and overlays
- CL procedures for downloading
- indexing and archiving from the IBM i
With LVReports, you can instantly access your computer-generated reports from your PC, a ‘green screen’ terminal, or via the web. You can also make notations and attach any PC file to report pages.
Advantages of a Windows and Web-Based Report Archiving System
The Windows-based LVReports archiving system has many benefits:
- host independence
- lower cost and higher capacity storage
- the ability to store reports from multiple platforms in a single archive
- flexibility to put your report archive on any type of media, including CD, DVD, etc.
- easily manage retention and purging of report documents
Find Needed Information Quickly with Indexing Features
With LVReports, you get full-text indexing as well as two different types of keyed indexing for light-speed access to your report contents and specific information.
Print on Demand Forms
LVReports includes an overlay generator that enables you to print your forms on demand.
Multi-level security protects your reports
Access to reports can be restricted with LVReport’s multi-level security features assuring only authorized individuals can view your information.
Control access can be given at the group, individual or IP address level. LVReports supports Active Directory authentication. With LVReports, you control:
- which archives are available
- which reports within an archive are viewable
- whether or not a user or group of users can print or email a report
With LVReports, the Audit Log records every event that takes place in the LVReports system, giving you full visibility to all activities.
Batch Print Feature by Key Values
With LVReport’s batch print feature, you can use key values to select specific pages to reprint, such as reprinting report pages for all statements or invoices for a customer within a specific date range.
NeXtract Data Mining
Our NeXtract Data Mining Tool is included when you purchase LVReports. You pay nothing extra for this feature.
Saves Time
Eliminate copying data from a report into another program. With the press of a button, you can extract the information stored in any of your LVReports for analysis purposes.
Extraction Templates
Create Extraction Templates to tell NeXtract exactly what information to extract from a report. Selecting information to extract is as simple as highlighting a field and clicking a button. Templates can be saved and reused.
Print Preview
Use the Print Preview options to format your extracted data for printing. You can define the printer orientation, margins, font, and font size.
LVReports FAQ
Here are some of the most frequently asked questions about LVReports, our secure server application for archiving and indexing all of your computer-generated reports, including PDF output, giving you instant access to your reports.
LVReports is a Windows-based solution that can run on any Windows server, giving you the ability to archive and index all of your computer-generated reports from your host system, including: Linux, IBM i, and Unix. Users access the system with their web browser.
LVReports is tightly integrated with the iSeries, AS/400 and System i. LVReports functionality includes:
- screenscraping
- CL procedures for downloading, indexing and archiving from the iSeries
- workstation access to the archive
There are several advantages to a Windows-based archiving system:
- host independence
- lower cost and higher capacity storage
- the ability to store reports from multiple platforms in a single archive
- flexibility to put your report archive on any sort of media, including CD, DVD, etc
LVReports is very affordable, and your ROI begins the minute you start using it. You make a single investment for a server license, and browser-based access is free.
Yes, LVReports has a green screen interface. You can reach the LaserVault archive from a dumb terminal even though the archive itself is stored on a PC.
You can get reports from your host system to LaserVault using LPR or FTP. If you are using an iSeries system, you can control the entire download, archiving, and updating process through CL programs.
Yes. With LVReports, you have instant key lookup, batch printing, and page-on-demand viewing of PDFs.
Yes. You can control access to your online archive at the group, individual, or IP address level. You can control:
- which archives are available
- which reports within an archive are viewable
- whether or not a user or group of users can print or email a report
- LVReports supports Active Directory authentication
There is a five-megabyte library of commands that can be used to send reports to LVReports and to automate the LVReports indexing process. You can expand this library with custom-developed commands. Using FTP, you can automate functions even from a mainframe since there is an FTP server built into the LVReports system itself.
We use only outgoing ports, so there is no need to open up the server on your IBM i or AS/400. Using the FTP client rather than the FTP server helps ensure the security of your host system.
You bet. LVReports has a neat capability to print back to the 400, so you can continue to use any 400-based fax-out software or forms software. Just print back to the AS/400 and use the device software of your choice. You can also print to any local or network printer.
LVReports Success Stories
C-Life Group
Desiring a solution that would help eliminate wasted personnel time and give them a way to more efficiently manage the variety of documents the business used, C-Life selected LaserVault’s Document Management Solution (LVDMS) with Content Express and LVReports.
Carter Machinery
Seeking a simpler way to manage and process large number of documents and, in turn, reduce the escalating costs of paper and supplies, Carter Machinery selected LaserVault Document Management Solution (LVDMS) and LVReports.
