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MKirkpatrick wrote:
My CEO want a 1400 character footer to be printed on EVERY PAGE of EVERY
REPORT we generate from the System i. All of our reports are programmed
described (no external descriptions; mostly S36 stuff !!). Using PRTTXT
Is there a deadline?
I'm not sure I see the problem unless there's a deadline. I mean,
yes, absolutely there is a potentially huge amount of work to be done.
But isn't it work that should be done?
Reports should be generated over externally-described printer files,
shouldn't they? (How many DSPFs are still around that are
program-described? Why would we externally describe one area but not
another?)
Properly described, it should be possible to modify the descriptions
with minimal programming impact.
Start the modernization project and accept it as a chance to do
reporting as it should be done.
Oh, and maybe we can add this to Scott's "traps" thread... There
seems to be a very real "trap" somewhere near the point of relying
on QSYSPRT or similar printer files and program-described output.
Well, I should probably apologize for unwarranted glibness in this.
I'm doing a similar project to update a hundred or so old programs
that were written with a mind-set that was fraught with future
traps. Probably not as big as what you're looking at, but enough to
start sympathizing.
I wish I could give a better sounding answer than I have, but I
really do believe in appropriate external printer files. AFAIK, you
_can_ get your fancy fonts, etc., without them; but I _really_ don't
like doing it. I especially don't like going back and making even
small changes later.
Good luck.
Tom Liotta
midrange.com
