Creating a Report that Does Not Require a Target

Question

I have several reports I'm building that work across all systems of a particular type. For example, I want to create a table of all of the systems with all of their software versions, another table with all of the systems and all of their free capacities and raid profile types (to best select a system to allocate capacity on) ...
As such, I would like to build a report where I do NOT have to choose a specific target. Is this possible?
My report definitions allow me to choose a type, but I can't find a way to say "but don't require a target", here is the report metadata for reference...
l_target_type := MGMT_IP_TARGET_TYPES();
l_target_type.extend(1);
l_target_type(1) := 'my_storage_type';
l_report_title_nlsid := 'Federated Capacity and Configuration Report';
l_report_owner := mgmt_user.get_repository_owner;
-- create a report definition for the report
l_report_guid := mgmt_ip.create_report_definition (
p_title_nlsid => l_report_title_nlsid,
p_description_nlsid => 'Display of Configuration Information',
p_owner => l_report_owner,
p_category_nlsid => 'Storage',
p_sub_category_nlsid => 'Storage Category',
p_late_binding_target_types => l_target_type,
p_show_table_of_contents => 1,
p_system_report => 1,
p_component_name => l_target_type(1)
);

Answer 1

It is a bit more complex, but I will boil this down:
- Yes, I'm using the term System loosely, I am doing a query across a bunch of appliances in one case, there is no target identifier associated with it and, as such, the SQL does NOT include a where clause like i.TARGET_GUID = ??EMIP_BIND_TARGET_GUID?? so I would prefer the user does not have to select this
- In another case I am in a detail report and do not want the user to have to choose the target (you can refer to another post on this), but basically, I get a table back using the BIND_TARGET, the user can click a column to get details on the adapter (for example), they click on it and are confronted with a target selection. I would rather "carry over" the target selection from the master report or I suppose I could "hide" the target GUID in the master report and then pass it as a parameter (my detail reports, in this case, are not home page reports and can only be accessed through the master report)
Either way, I don't want to be confronted by the target selection.