Reporting and Dashboards Service Overview
The Reporting and Dashboards Service is an application service that runs the JasperReports application in an Informatica domain.
Create and enable the Reporting and Dashboards Service on the Manage tab of the Administrator tool. You can use the service to run reports from the JasperReports application. You can also run the reports from the PowerCenter Client and Metadata Manager to view them in JasperReports Server.
After you create a Reporting and Dashboards Service, add a reporting source to run reports against the data in the data source.
After you enable the Reporting and Dashboards Service, click the service URL in the Properties view to view reports in JasperReports Server.
Deprecated Behavior
Effective in version 10.1, Informatica deprecated the Reporting and Dashboard Service. Informatica will drop support for the Reporting and Dashboard Service in a future release.
If you upgrade to version 10.1, you can continue to use the Reporting and Dashboard Service. Informatica recommends that you begin using a third-party reporting tool before Informatica drops support. You can use the recommended SQL queries for building all the reports shipped with earlier versions of PowerCenter.
If you install version 10.1, you cannot create a Reporting and Dashboard Service. You must use a third-party reporting tool to run PowerCenter and Metadata Manager reports.
For information about the PowerCenter Reports, see the Informatica PowerCenter Using PowerCenter Reports Guide. For information about the PowerCenter repository views, see the Informatica PowerCenter Repository Guide. For information about the Metadata Manager repository views, see the Informatica Metadata Manager View Reference.
JasperReports
JasperReports is an open source reporting library that users can embed into any Java application.
Jaspersoft iReports Designer is an application that you can use with JasperReports Server to design reports. You can run Jaspersoft iReports Designer from the shortcut menu after you install the PowerCenter Client.
Informatica does not support creating custom reports or modifying reports that Informatica provides in Jaspersoft iReports Designer. For more information about the Jaspersoft iReports Designer, visit the Jaspersoft community.