Report-By-Forms (RBF) is a forms-based interface for creating and producing reports from an Ingres database.

Using RBF, you can:

You can also create report specifications with Report-Writer, a command language release of RBF. With Report-Writer, you can produce more complex reports than you can with RBF, including conditional expressions, break control, and complex queries. For complete information on creating report specifications with Report-Writer, see the chapter “Using Report-Writer.”