About a job
You run a report executable when you want the BIRT Viewer to generate a report with the most current data. When you run a job, the Viewer provides some default settings. You change these settings to filter report data using report parameters. This document describes how to set up a job to generate a report, and how you can filter report data to display specific information each time, by defining parameter values.
Running a job instructs the server to process a report executable immediately. When the job successfully finishes, the generated report appears. If the job takes a few minutes to finish, the Viewer displays the completed pages of the report as they become available.