Reporter is a tool for designing reports in a graphical layout similar to the design of frames in OpenROAD applications. Reporter generates a 4GL procedure to take care of the data retrieval and organization in report form, and a 4GL API to a set of 3GL routines for the actual generation of an intermediate output file. A separate process is responsible for the final interpretation of the intermediate file and sending output to a printer.

Recent changes to Reporter allow runtime support for converting dynamic Report procedures into static procedures. Also, the introduction of the RWConv utility offers users their first exposure to the 4GL API. These changes allow users to write code that utilizes the API in a supported fashion.