Background Processing
This section tells you how to execute reports and save the data as frozen report data or summarization data at specified times. Here you can also read about how to print reports using variants and variant groups. You can both print reports and update report data in the background at specified points in time.
This section consists of the following steps:
- Maintain variants
- Define variant groups
- Maintain variant groups
- Schedule variant groups for background processing
Note: Variants and variant groups replace the
variable groups and program RKEBATCH, which were used in previous releases.
For details about converting to the new method, see the 
release note.