Re: ACE Report [?]
>From: pyz@panix.com (Max)
>Date: 17 Jun 1997 09:18:45 -0400
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>I realize that ACE reports aren't terribly sexy, but I DO have to work
>with one. To that effect, would someone be so kind as to help me here?
>
>I need to prompt a user for a tablename. That tablename needs to be
>passed to the select statement.
Use I4GL -- ACE cannot do what you want.
Or, you can do the prompting using the shell, and then write, compile and
run the ACE report on the fly. I've done this sort of thing with a
dbschema type program where the user can specify the list of tables to be
'schemaed' on the command line.
>input
> prompt for pm_table using "Please enter date using 'rw_pos+yymmdd' format: "
Ouch -- a different table for each day? I wonder if your design is really
optimal.
Yours,
Jonathan Leffler (johnl@informix.com) #include <disclaimer.h>