Utilities

Report Designer

Report Designer is an interactive utility for the IBM system i. With Report Designer an applications programmer can create and maintain report record formats coded in DDS, RPG, or ILE/RPG. It replaces printer layout charts and hand-coding of DDS, RPG, or ILE/RPG specifications.

Features:

   - Functionally equivalent to IBM's Screen Design Aid (SDA), with extensions for printer files.

   - Supports all DDS keywords and works with existing printer file source members.

   - Supports RPG internally described printer files and works with existing RPG source.

   - Supports both RPG and ILE/RPG.

   - Work Display supports 27 line X 132 column display mode.

   - Provides windowing and paging for designing reports that are larger than the display device.

   - Handles report widths up to the DDS maximum of 378 columns.

   - Allows field selection from existing database files.

   - Enables printing of sample reports, both in batch and interactively.

   - Converts between RPG internally and DDS externally described printer specifications.

   - Retains and reapplies printer file creation parameters.

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