Re: Problem with spool.

["Michael Ryan" <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>]

My first thought is to write the information to a temporary file in QTEMP.
Multiple occurring data structures may work too. In other words, save the
information you need to write until you determine if you need to write it -
if you do need to write it, write it.

On 5/18/06, Tomasz Skorża <t.skorza@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi
>
> My problem is regarding "saving" spool in some "place" and than decide if
> print it realy or not. I'll try to describe it more precisly.
>
> When I calling report program do following functions:
> 1) Write header record (say 5 lines)
> 2) Detail calculations
> 3) Write detail record (say 2 lines)
> 4) Total calculations
> 5) Write total record (say 3 lines)
>
> And problem is that only during 4-th point - total calculations I got all
> data based on them I can decide if record/point 1/3/5  shold be or
> shouldn't
> be realy write to finally spool/printout.
>
> The easiest way is reorgenize processing:
> 2) Detail calculations
> 4) Total calculations
> 6) check condition and
> 1) Write header record (say 5 lines)
> 3) Write detail record (say 2 lines)
> 5) Write total record (say 3 lines)
>
> But this way not always is possible to do.
>
> So my question is how to write record into some temporary "space" - all
> three records and than move them back to finally spool in order:
> 1) Write header record (say 5 lines) (into temporary space, complete 5
> lines)
> 2) Detail calculations
> 3) Write detail record (say 2 lines) (into temporary space, complete 2
> lines)
> 4) Total calculations
> 5) Write total record (say 3 lines) (into temporary space, complete 3
> lines)
> 6) check condition and
> 7) Write header record/move from temporary space into finally spool
> 8) Write detail record/move from temporary space into finally spool
> 9) Write total record/move from temporary space into finally spool
>
> Regards.
>
> Tomasz Skorza
>
>
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