Re: Using the RPG Cycle

Hi, Buck:

Auto-Report _is_ a pre-processor of RPG/400. Prompt the CRTRPTPGM command, press F10=Additional parameters, and page down until you see this:

Auto report output file . . . . OUTFILE _*NONE______
Library . . . . . . . . . . . _*LIBL______
Auto report output member . . . OUTMBR _*NONE______

Put the cursor in any of those fields and press F1=Help. It says:

................................................................
: Auto report output file (OUTFILE) - Help :
: :
: Specifies the name of the output file for the RPG source :
: program created by the automatic report compiler. :
: :
: *NONE :
: More... :
: F2=Extended help F10=Move to top F12=Cancel :
: F13=Information Assistant F20=Enlarge F24=More keys :
: :
:..............................................................:

So, if someone really wanted to use Auto-Report with ILE RPG IV, you could run this command, specify the name of the source file, lbirary and member name for the output, then use that as input to CVTRPGSRC, and "Voila!" -- you have an ILE Auto-Report program.

Enjoy,

Mark S. Waterbury

> On 4/29/2017 5:56 PM, Buck Calabro wrote:

On 28 April 2017 at 17:41, John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

And since the CRTRPTPGM command's "full name" (for lack of a more
official term) is "Create Auto Report RPG Program", I think folks can
be forgiven for having the impression that this is somehow part of
RPG, or at least related to RPG in some way.

I am not fully understanding what I am reading, but I'm getting the
distinct impression that "Auto Report" is a tool for generating RPG
programs (but not newer than RPG/400) without writing all the RPG
source yourself.

I used to think of Auto Report as a preprocessor.

Basically, you'd put Auto Report specs in your RPG source, and the
'preprocessor' would convert that to 'real' RPG source. This was
somewhat useful in System/3 days, when virtually all of our output was
in the form of paper reports. *AUTO used to do the equivalent of
SQL's GROUP BY ... WITH ROLLUP. It'd generate all the accumulators
and print them, too.

/COPY is all that is left of Auto Report in ILE RPG.
--buck