Re: ace reports

In article <1ovi91INNnqi@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> jparker@hpbs2561.boi.hp.com (Jack Parker) writes: > >In version 2.1 of isql you can do an ace report and always get a header >for your page header. In 4.10 you don't get a page header if there is no data. > [...] >Was this a bug in 2.1 that was 'corrected' when it moved to 4.10 - or was >this unintentional? Are we the only the platform that this occurs on? > >ISQL 4.10 >HPUX 8.x We run SunOS, and the ISQL 4.10 behavior you describe has always been the way that the report facility of *I4GL* has worked for us. So, maybe the change was, if not correction, then at least standardization in Informix's view. Back in the three-dot-three-oh days, I wrote some C routines for report control in programs that used ALL-II calls. The function that equated to what became START REPORT in I4GL had the ability to force a page header, or wait till some actual report content caused a header to print. It was a handy feature, and not hard to do. It would be nice to be able to select either type of behavior in the OUTPUT section of a report, or with a clause in the START REPORT statement in I4GL. When I get back around to i4glmods again, I think I'll add that to the list. Walt. -- Walt Hultgren Internet: walt@rmy.emory.edu (IP 128.140.8.1) Emory University UUCP: {...,gatech,rutgers,uunet}!emory!rmy!walt 954 Gatewood Road, NE BITNET: walt@EMORY Atlanta, GA 30329 USA Voice: +1 404 727 0648