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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2007
Charles Michael Potter, Osgoode, CA;
Henk Cazemier, Spencerville, CA;
Glen Michael Seeds, Ottawa, CA;
Charles Michael Potter, Osgoode, CA;
Henk Cazemier, Spencerville, CA;
Glen Michael Seeds, Ottawa, CA;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system and method of producing a business report from data contained in a computer based business intelligence system, is provided. The method includes defining one or more macro functions, and producing a report layout containing one or more macrotized database language expressions. The macrotized database language expression having at least one of the macro functions. The method includes produce one or more valid database language expressions for a database query by modifying the one or more macrotized database language expressions in dependence upon the return value of the at least one of the macro functions, and applying the one or more valid database language expressions to one or more database to produce the business report.