Re: NewEra: this report doesn't work. What's wrong?

You will simply have to report a defect to Informix. It's clearly a defect. If you haven't allready, try to upgrade to 3.0. It should be available by now. luismi@cot.es (Luis Miguel Agudelo) wrote: :Nils Myklebust wrote: :> :> It would have been slightly :-) better if you posted in plain ascii, :> not html encoded. : :Sorry. : :> I have decoded it below. : :Thanks. : :> You forgot to explain what does happen. What's the problem? :> The skip to top of page should of course be executed ones for each :> change in value of item1 except for the first row (where it allready :> is at the top of the page). : :Really, the report should print 4 pages but if you compile the program :in p-code all the rows are printed in one page and only the last 'skip :to top of page' is executed. Can you believe it? : :If you compile it in c-code the program runs well. : : :-- begin of code : : MAIN : START REPORT example_report TO "lm1.txt" : OUTPUT TO REPORT example_report(1,1) : OUTPUT TO REPORT example_report(1,2) : OUTPUT TO REPORT example_report(1,3) : OUTPUT TO REPORT example_report(2,2) : OUTPUT TO REPORT example_report(3,3) : OUTPUT TO REPORT example_report(4,4) : FINISH REPORT example_report : END MAIN : : REPORT example_report(item1, item2) : : define item1 decimal(2,0), : item2 decimal(2,0) : : output : left margin 0 : right margin 80 : top margin 1 : bottom margin 1 : page length 66 : : order external by item1, item2 : : format : : page header : print : "------------------------------------------------------------" : print " PAGE HEADER" : print : "------------------------------------------------------------" : : before group of item1 : skip to top of page : : on every row : print "item1: ", item1, " item2: ", item2 : : page trailer : print : "----------------------- PAGE TRAILER -----------------------" : : END REPORT : :-- end of code : : :------------------------- :Luis M. Agudelo Jimenez :luismi@cot.es : Nils.Myklebust@idg.no NM Data AS, P.O.Box 9090 Gronland, N-0133 Oslo, Norway My opinions are those of my company The Informix FAQ is at http://www.iiug.org