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

Posted in 1997

Luis Miguel Agudelo — 10 Mar 1997 15:04:25 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------------3C704ABA5E260 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii <HTML><BODY> This code don't work in NewEra 2.20 WC1. The before group must be executed 4 times, but in NewEra this don't happen. Why?  <TT>-- begin of code </TT> <TT></TT> <TT>MAIN</TT> <TT>   START REPORT example_report TO "lm1.txt"</TT> <TT>   OUTPUT TO REPORT example_report(1,1)</TT> <TT>   OUTPUT TO REPORT example_report(1,2)</TT> <TT>   OUTPUT TO REPORT example_report(1,3)</TT> <TT>   OUTPUT TO REPORT example_report(2,2)</TT> <TT>   OUTPUT TO REPORT example_report(3,3)</TT> <TT>   OUTPUT TO REPORT example_report(4,4)</TT> <TT>   FINISH REPORT example_report</TT> <TT>END MAIN</TT> <TT></TT> <TT></TT> <TT>REPORT example_report(item1, item2)</TT> <TT></TT> <TT>   define item1   decimal(2,0), </TT> <TT>          item2   decimal(2,0)</TT> <TT></TT> <TT>   output</TT> <TT>      left    margin 0</TT> <TT>      right   margin 80</TT> <TT>      top     margin 1 </TT> <TT>      bottom  margin 1</TT> <TT>      page length 66</TT> <TT></TT> <TT>   order external by item1, item2</TT> <TT></TT> <TT>   format</TT> <TT></TT> <TT>    page header</TT> <TT>      print "------------------------------------------------------------"</TT> <TT>      print "                        PAGE HEADER"</TT> <TT>      print "------------------------------------------------------------"</TT> <TT></TT> <TT></TT> <TT>    before group of item1</TT> <TT>      skip to top of page</TT> <TT></TT> <TT></TT> <TT>    on every row</TT> <TT>      print "item1: ", item1, "           item2: ", item2</TT> <TT></TT> <TT></TT> <TT>    page trailer</TT> <TT>    print "----------------------- PAGE TRAILER -----------------------"</TT> <TT></TT> <TT>END REPORT</TT> <TT></TT> <TT>-- end of code </TT> Is this a bug or am I a ...?  :-)  Thank's in advance  --  Luis M. Agudelo Jimenez  luismi@cot.es  </BODY> </HTML> ------------3C704ABA5E260 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: message/rfc822 Message-ID: <332444C6.4A43@cot.es> Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 18:28:40 +0100 From: Luis Miguel Agudelo <luismi@cot.es> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0b2 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: informix-list <informix-list@rmy.emory.edu> Subject: NewEra: this report don't work. What's wrong? X-Priority: 2 (High) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii <HTML><BODY> This code don't work in NewEra 2.20 WC1. The before group must be executed 4 times, but in NewEra this don't happen. Why?  <TT>-- begin of code</TT>  <TT>MAIN</TT>  <TT>   START REPORT example_report TO "lm1.txt"</TT>  <TT>   OUTPUT TO REPORT example_report(1,1)</TT>  <TT>   OUTPUT TO REPORT example_report(1,2)</TT>  <TT>   OUTPUT TO REPORT example_report(1,3)</TT>  <TT>   OUTPUT TO REPORT example_report(2,2)</TT>  <TT>   OUTPUT TO REPORT example_report(3,3)</TT>  <TT>   OUTPUT TO REPORT example_report(4,4)</TT>  <TT>   FINISH REPORT example_report</TT>  <TT>END MAIN</TT>  <TT>REPORT example_report(item1, item2)</TT>  <TT>   define item1   decimal(2,0), </TT>  <TT>          item2   decimal(2,0)</TT>  <TT>   output</TT>  <TT>      left    margin 0</TT>  <TT>      right   margin 80</TT>  <TT>      top     margin 1 </TT>  <TT>      bottom  margin 1</TT>  <TT>      page length 66</TT>  <TT>   order external by item1, item2</TT>  <TT>   format</TT>  <TT>    page header</TT>  <TT>      print "------------------------------------------------------------"</TT>  <TT>      print "                        PAGE HEADER"</TT>  <TT>      print "------------------------------------------------------------"</TT>  <TT>    before group of item2</TT>  <TT>      skip to top of page</TT>  <TT>    on every row</TT>  <TT>      print "item2: ", item2, "           item3: ", item3</TT>  <TT>    page trailer</TT>  <TT>    print "----------------------- PAGE TRAILER -----------------------"</TT>  <TT>END REPORT</TT>  <TT>-- end of code</TT>  Is this a bug or am I a ...?  :-) Thank's in advance --  Luis M. Agudelo Jimenez  luismi@cot.es  </BODY> </HTML> ------------3C704ABA5E260--