Re: Do you need a "on every row" or "on last row"?

Cathy Kipp writes: } Bob Beaulieu writes: } } ->Should one be able to have a report that has a select which just prints } ->data in the header part of the format section? } -> } ->A recent upgrade to 4.10 from 4.00 is no longer allowing this. } } Yes. 4GL behaves this way. ACE should too. We get the same behavior } on our IBM RS6000. Since you called Informix Tech Support, do they } have a bug number for this problem? If not, do they consider it an } undocumented feature? Note that this appears to be an undocumented change in behavior from 4.00 to 4.10 (and continues in 4.11, by the way). } Actually I have found one or two other problems with this rev of ACE... } it does seem to be a bit buggy. What sort of problems? } [stuff deleted] } } ->format } ->page header } ->print "This should be printing out even if customer_num is not found" } } Actually this is not true. A report is only formatted if data is found. } This is consistent with 4GL behavior. It would be nice to set an option } to create a report even if no data is found, but it does not exist at } this point in time. The only way I know of creating an empty report is } to do it in 4GL by calling the report routine explicitly if no } information is found. We write our reports this way since coming back } with a report file of size 0 could mean other problems besides no data } existing for this report. Many of our users expect to see a nicely formatted report with no data if that's what the database says. To them, an empty output file means, "Something went wrong. Better call support." Like you say, a report file of size 0 could mean other problems. In previous versions, it ONLY meant other problems. -- Bryan Klopfenstein bryan@carsinfo.com CARS Information Systems Corp. Cincinnati, OH Standard Disclaimers Apply