Print Routine Considerations

When using a print routine, you should consider the following:

  • Before performing a print routine, the report program must move a print request value (a report group name) to RPT-GROUP-REQUEST .

  • The page number is moved to the print line if "page" occurs in columns 123-126.

  • The system date is moved to the print line if "date" occurs in column 8 and rpt-skip = 9.

  • The system time is moved to the print line if "time" occurs in columns 8-11.

  • Dates (in the format 99/99/99) are assumed to be in yymmdd sequence, and are displayed as mmddyy, yymmdd, or ddmmyy depending on the value in the WS-DATE-DISPLAY-FORMAT field.

To print report data

  1. Move data to the fields in the group.

    Note: You cannot move a value to the following types of fields because the system supplies their values. Even though you may see DATE, TIME, and PAGE fields in a report definition, you cannot access these fields. 
    TD     Today's Date
CT     Current Time
PN     Page Number

    Move data to all other fields every time you print a group or the fields might contain erroneous data.

  2. Move the group name to RPT-GROUP-REQUEST .

  3. Perform 700-PRINT-RPT-GRP .