Re: 4GL Information

Jeffrey fSchwartz (fschwaj@iia.org) wrote: > I am currently evaluating Informix 4GL for use on a particular > project. We want to produce feeds from our informix database to several > external systems. In order to do this, we need to be able to produce > 'flat files' in specific formats. How can I create text files with 4GL? > I was able to do it using the reporting feature and specifying 'output to > 'stuff.dat' or something like that. My problem is that the data in the > file needs to have a different format from line to line. For example, > there is a header record, followed by a number of transactions. Each > transaction could be as few as one or as many as five lines in the file. > These lines have different formats. Can 4GL do this? How? > The best way is to use a 'C' function(s). Or do it with a report (which takes longer at runtime). -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ___ ( _`\\ _ Danni Bauer | | ) | _ _ ___ ___ (_) | | | ) /'_` )/' _ `\\/' _ `\\| | bauer@gtetel.com | |_) |( (_| || ( ) || ( ) || | (____/'`\\__,_)(_) (_)(_) (_)(_) 73764.63@compuserve.com