Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 1 Tips and Techniques for FOCUS 76 Did You Know? Walter F. Blood Information Builders, Inc.

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 1

Tips and Techniques for FOCUS 76Did You Know?

Walter F. Blood

Information Builders, Inc

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 2Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 2

What I Want – Can I Get?

A Report from the MFD for text of FILTER or DEFINE or COMPUTE

Total Number of Pages WITHIN a sort group

Different Headings Based on Data or page number SUBTOTALs BEFORE the DetailsPipe Delimited and Variable Length DataValidation of Data Entered by Pattern


Page 1 for Each Region

Show Selected Filters With New Region.

REPAGE and show number of Pages on FOOTING.

Show REGION Totals. Report of Sales For Region: MidwestTotal Region Sales Units: 905,045 Dollars: 11,400,665

Filters Applied: Category: 'Food' OR 'Coffee' Year: '1997'

Percentof

State City Product Unit Sales Dollar Sales Budget

IL 307,581 3,924,401Chicago Biscotti 29,413 378,412 98.04%

Coffee Grinder 19,339 233,292 100.60%Coffee Pot 15,785 204,828 98.44%Croissant 43,300 549,366 100.07%Espresso 32,237 420,439 99.45%Latte 77,344 978,340 97.89%Mug 30,157 376,754 97.66%Scone 45,355 595,069 100.59%Thermos 14,651 187,901 103.64%

Page 1 of 3

Report of Sales For Region: Midwest

Percentof

State City Product Unit Sales Dollar Sales Budget

MO 297,727 3,761,286St. Louis Biscotti 29,188 368,077 101.47%

Coffee Grinder 14,614 181,570 98.88%Coffee Pot 14,807 190,153 98.91%Croissant 48,941 613,871 99.22%Espresso 32,596 419,143 99.42%Latte 77,347 966,981 100.27%Mug 27,040 343,852 100.76%Scone 37,602 481,953 102.81%Thermos 15,592 195,686 98.04%

Page 2 of 3

Subsequent Pages

State Totals Before the City Details.

State Totals Bold.

Pages Counted Within REGION Group.


Requirement 1.

Launch Page requests &FILTER1 , &FILTER2, etc.

HEADING should show translated FILTER Value, retrieved dynamically from the MFD.

Solution


SYSCOLUM


DynamicInformation about the Master File DescriptionFILE/SEGMENT/FIELD informationIncludes Description and RemarksIncludes DEFINE/COMPUTE/FILTERS

+ The ExpressionChanges as the Product Changes


SYSCOLUM File Information (extract)


FILENAME=SYSCOLUM,SUFFIX=FMI,

REMARKS=Cataloged Column Information,$

SEGNAME=SYSCOLUM,SEGTYPE=S2

FIELD=TBNAME ,,A64,A64,INDEX=I,$

FIELD=TBCREATOR ,,A18,A18,$'EDADBA' or appname

FIELD=DBMS_CREATOR ,,A8,A8,$AFD if exists

FIELD=TBTYPE ,,A8,A8,$MFD SUFFIX

FIELD=VIEW_OF ,,A84,A84,$ NAME OF REAL MFD FOR BV

FIELD=FDEFCENT ,,I4,I4,$ FILE LEVEL DEFAULT CENTURY

FIELD=FYRTHRESH ,,I4,I4,$ FILE LEVEL YEAR THRESH

FIELD=IS_CUBE,,A1,A1,ACCEPT=Y OR N,$


SYSCOLUM Segment Information (extract)


SEGNAME=SYSSEG, SEGTYPE=S1, PARENT=SYSCOLUM

FIELD=SEGNO ,,I2S,I4,$ SEGMENT NUMBER

FIELD=SEGNAME ,,A64,A64,$MFD - SEGNAME/CRSEGNAME

FIELD=SEGTYPE ,,A4,A4,$MFD - SEGTYPE

FIELD=LOCSEGNAME,,A64,A64,$MFD - SEGNAME FROM LOCAL MFD.

FIELD=SKEYS ,,I2,I4,$MFD - SKEYS

FIELD=PARNO ,,I2S,I4,$ PARENT SEGMENT NUMBER OF THIS FIELD

FIELD=PARENT ,,A64,A64,$MFD - PARENT

FIELD=TAG ,,A8,A8,$

FIELD=FILENAME,,A64,A64,$ File from which segment originated

FIELD=SEGSUFFIX,,A8,A8,$SUFFIX FOR A SEGMENT AS SEPARATE FILE

FIELD=SEGDESC,,A256,A256,$SEGMANET DESCRIPTION


SYSCOLUM Field Information (extract)


SEGNAME=SYSFIELD,SEGTYPE=S1,PARENT=SYSSEG

FIELD=NAME ,,A66,A66,$MFD

FIELD=COLNO ,,I4,I4,$System generated record counter

…

FIELD=ALIAS ,,A66,A66,$MFD - ALIAS

FIELD=INDEXED ,,A1,A1,ACCEPT=Y OR N OR ' ',$MFD - F(INDX)

FIELD=ACTUAL ,,A8,A8,$MFD - ACTUAL

…

FIELD=TITLE ,,A78,A78,$Drived from TITLE in master file

FIELD=HELPMESSAGE,,A78,A78,$Derived from HELPMESSAGE

FIELD=USAGE ,,A8,A8,$MFD – USAGE

…

FIELD=DEFINE ,,A1,A1,ACCEPT=Y OR N OR C OR F OR S,$

FIELD=DEFTEXT ,,A256,A256,$ TEXT OF DEFINE

…

FIELD=LONGDESC,,A2048,A2048,$ Derived from DESCRIPTION

Ggsales1.mas

FILENAME=ggsales1, SUFFIX=FOC , $ SEGMENT=SALES01, SEGTYPE=S1, $ FIELDNAME=SEQ_NO, ALIAS=SEQ, USAGE=I5, TITLE='Sequence#', DESCRIPTION='Sequence number in database', $ ,,, DEFINE Year/A4 WITH SEQ_NO=EDIT( DATE,'9999'); $ FILTER NINETYSEVEN WITH SEQ_NO=Year EQ '1997'; $ FIELDNAME=UNITS, ALIAS=E10, USAGE=I8C, TITLE='Unit Sales', DESCRIPTION='Number of units sold', $ FIELDNAME=DOLLARS, ALIAS=E11, USAGE=I8C, TITLE='Dollar Sales', DESCRIPTION='Total dollar amount of reported sales', $ FIELDNAME=BUDUNITS, ALIAS=E12, USAGE=I08, TITLE='Budget Units', DESCRIPTION='Number of units budgeted', $ FIELDNAME=BUDDOLLARS, ALIAS=E13, USAGE=I08, TITLE='Budget Dollars', DESCRIPTION='Total sales quota in dollars', $ COMPUTE PCT_OF_BUDGET/F7.2%=UNITS/BUDUNITS * 100;, $ FILTER EAST WITH SEQ_NO=REGION EQ 'Northeast' OR 'Southeast'; $ FILTER FOODS WITH SEQ_NO=CATEGORY EQ 'Coffee' OR 'Food'; $


SYSCOLUM Describe


DEFINE FILE SYSCOLUMDEF_TYPE/A15=DECODE DEFINE('C' 'Computes' 'F' 'Filters' 'Y' 'Defines‘ ELSE 'Columns ');XREMARKS/A256=IF DEFINE EQ 'F' OR 'C' OR 'Y' THEN GETTOK(DEFTEXT, 256, -1, '=', 256, 'A256') ELSE REMARKS;DEFORDER/I1 = DECODE DEFINE('C' 1 'Y' 3 'F' 4 ELSE 2);ENDTABLE FILE SYSCOLUMPRINT SHORTNAME SHORTALIAS USAGE XREMARKS AS 'Remarks,or,Definition'BY SEGNO NOPRINT BY DEFINE NOPRINT ROWS ‘C’ OVER ‘N’ OVER ‘Y’ OVER ‘F’BY DEF_TYPE NOPRINT BY COLNO NOPRINTON DEF_TYPE SUBHEAD"<DEF_TYPE "HEADING"Report of file: <+0>&FileName""As of: <+0>&DATEMtrDYY"" “WHERE TBNAME EQ ‘ggsales1’ON TABLE SET STYLE …

Report of file: ggsales1

As of: April 17, 2009

Remarks

or

SHORTNAME SHORTALIAS USAGE Definition

Computes

PCT_OF_BUDGET F7.2% UNITS/BUDUNITS * 100;

Columns

SEQ_NO SEQ I5 Sequence number in database

CATEGORY E02 A11 Product category

PCD E03 A04 Product Identification code (for sale)

PRODUCT E04 A16 Product name

REGION E05 A11 Region code

ST E06 A02 State

CITY E07 A20 City

STCD E08 A05 Store identification code (for sale)

DATE E09 I8YYMD Date of sales report

UNITS E10 I8C Number of units sold

DOLLARS E11 I8C Total dollar amount of reported sales

BUDUNITS E12 I08 Number of units budgeted

BUDDOLLARS E13 I08 Total sales quota in dollars

Defines

Year A4 EDIT( DATE,'9999');

Filters

NINETYSEVEN I1 Year EQ '1997';

SYSCOLUM Describe


SYSCOLUM Get Filter


DEFINE FILE SYSCOLUM ADD

XREM2/A258 = '"' | XREMARKS || '"';

END

TABLE FILE SYSCOLUM

WHERE TBNAME EQ 'GGSALES1'

PRINT XREM2

WHERE DEFINE EQ 'F'

WHERE NAME EQ '&FILTER1' OR '&FILTER2'

ON TABLE SAVE AS SAV1

END

-RUN

-SET &NOFLTRS = &LINES;

…

HEADING

-INCLUDE SAV1


Requirement 2

State Totals Should Show BEFORE City Details

State Totals Should be Bold

Solution


DUPLICATECOL


Multiple Verb Sets Show each Verbset in its own columns

DUPLICATECOL = OFF aligns common columns to show higher verb accumulations above more detail information.

•Style sheet attribute VERBSET or LINE allows user to specify styling by verb set.


DUPLICATECOL


SET DUPLICATECOL = &DUPL

TABLE FILE EMPLOYEE

HEADING

"DUPLICATECOL IS SET TO &DUPL"

SUM CSAL AVE.CSAL BY DEPARTMENT

SUM CSAL AVE.CSAL BY DEPARTMENT BY CJC

END


DUPLICATECOL=ON


PAGE 1.1 DUPLICATECOL IS SET TO ON AVE DEPARTMENT CURR_SAL CURR_SAL CURR_JOBCODE ---------- -------- -------- ------------ MIS $108,002.00 $18,000.33 A07 A17 B02 B03 B04 B14 PRODUCTION $114,282.00 $19,047.00 A01 A07 A15 A17 B02 B04


DUPLICATECOL=OFF


DUPLICATECOL IS SET TO OFF AVE DEPARTMENT CURR_JOBCODE CURR_SAL CURR_SAL ---------- ------------ -------- -------- MIS $108,002.00 $18,000.33 A07 $9,000.00 $9,000.00 A17 $27,062.00 $27,062.00 B02 $18,480.00 $18,480.00 B03 $18,480.00 $18,480.00 B04 $21,780.00 $21,780.00 B14 $13,200.00 $13,200.00 PRODUCTION $114,282.00 $19,047.00 A01 $9,500.00 $9,500.00 A07 $11,000.00 $11,000.00 A15 $26,862.00 $26,862.00 A17 $29,700.00 $29,700.00 B02 $16,100.00 $16,100.00 B04 $21,120.00 $21,120.00


DUPLICATECOL and Styling


SET DUPLICATECOL = &DUPL

TABLE FILE EMPLOYEE

HEADING

"DUPLICATECOL IS SET TO &DUPL"

SUM CSAL AVE.CSAL BY DEPARTMENT

SUM CSAL AVE.CSAL BY DEPARTMENT BY CJC

END


DUPLICATECOL


SET DUPLICATECOL = OFFTABLE FILE GGSALES1SUM UNITS NOPRINT DOLLARS NOPRINT BY REGION NOPRINTSUM UNITS DOLLARSBY REGION NOPRINT BY STSUM UNITS DOLLARS COMPUTE PCT_OF_BUDGET; AS 'Percent,of,Budget'BY REGION NOPRINT BY ST BY CITY BY PRODUCT …TYPE=TITLE, COLUMN=N10, SIZE=12,$TYPE=DATA, LINE=2, COLUMN=N10, SIZE=12, STYLE=BOLD,$


Report Request if NOT 7.6.x


DEFINE FILE GGSALES1RUNITS/I9C = UNITS;RDOLLARS/I9C = DOLLARS;SUNITS/I9C = UNITS;SDOLLARS/I9C = DOLLARS;ENDTABLE FILE GGSALES1SUM RUNITS WITHIN REGION NOPRINT RDOLLARS WITHIN REGION NOPRINT SUNITS WITHIN ST NOPRINT SDOLLARS WITHIN ST NOPRINT UNITS DOLLARS COMPUTE PCT_OF_BUDGET; AS 'Percent,of,Budget'BY REGION NOPRINTBY STBY CITYBY PRODUCT


Report Request if NOT 7.6.x (Cont)


ON REGION PAGE-BREAK REPAGE

ON ST SUBHEAD"<ST <+0>Total<SUNITS<SDOLLARS>"ON ST PAGE-BREAKHEADING"Report of Sales For Region: <REGION ""TOTAL Region Sales: "" Units: <RUNITS "" Dollars: <RDOLLARS"" " …TYPE=SUBHEAD, BY=2, LINE=1, OBJECT=FIELD, ITEM=2, POSITION='N9',$


Requirement 3

Region Totals Should Show ONLY in the HEADING on Page 1 for each REGION

HEADINGs can reference Computed fields, but blank lines should not be shown

Not Yet Available


SUBHEAD …


SUBHEADs may vary based on WHEN clauses

Fields used in HEADINGs and FOOTINGs become verb objects with the first verb.

•Fields used in HEADINGs and FOOTINGs cannot use WITHIN, but can use prefixes.

•SUBHEADs come AFTER column headings, so must include in the SUBHEAD if otherwise.


Variable HEADINGS/SUBHEADs


ON REGION SUBHEAD

"Filters Applied"

-INCLUDE SAV1

WHEN &NOFLTRS GT 0

ON ST SUBHEAD

" <+0> <+0> <+0> <+0> Percent "

" <+0> <+0> <+0> <+0> of "

"City<+0>Product<+0>Unit Sales<+0>Sales Dollars<+0>Budget"

"Total<+0> <SUNITS<SDOLLARS "


Requirement 4

Pages should be numbered WITHIN the Sort Group

REPAGE will start page numbering at 1, at change of BY value

TABLASTPAGE contains maximum page number within the report.

Solution


BYLASTPAGE


TABLE FILE GGSALES1

SUM CNT.DST.ST AS NUMBERSTS BY REGION

ON TABLE HOLD AS REGST FORMAT FOCUS

INDEX REGION

END

JOIN

GGSALES1.SALES01.REGION IN ggsales1 TO UNIQUE REGST.SEG01.REGION IN REGST

AS J0

END

…

FOOTING

"Page <TABPAGENO of <FST.NUMBERSTS"


State: IL

Total Region Sales:

Units: 452,310

Dollars: 5,658,827

Filters Applied

Year EQ '1997';

Percent

of

City Product Unit Sales Sales Dollars Budget

Total 158,053 1,990,612

Chicago Biscotti 15413 200330 101.00%

Coffee Grinder 11107 133372 97.18%

Coffee Pot 7306 98027 99.19%

Croissant 24029 296286 100.44%

Espresso 13120 165591 93.39%

Latte 44113 549629 97.63%

Mug 14436 174579 94.71%

Scone 19851 257516 100.08%

Thermos 8678 115282 111.14%

Output Page 1


State: MO

Percent

of


Total 146,594 1,839,043

St. Louis Biscotti 15852 193069 102.47%

Coffee Grinder 6995 88475 97.86%

Coffee Pot 9130 113589 98.22%

Croissant 22791 276930 97.51%

Espresso 11195 149201 98.97%

Latte 41512 518391 100.08%

Mug 13050 162706 101.07%

Scone 18507 243786 105.49%

Thermos 7562 92896 101.98%

Output Page 2


State: TX

Percent

of


Total 147,663 1,829,172

Houston Biscotti 14537 184912 101.81%


Coffee Pot 7912 97148 100.06%

Croissant 26130 325875 97.23%

Espresso 12424 157375 102.42%

Latte 43228 531995 98.53%

Mug 14463 176431 99.40%

Scone 12780 166045 99.36%

Thermos 8078 93081 95.77%

Output Page 3


Other New Features in 7.6.x


New Functions and Functionality


SLEEP(delay,number seconds, ‘I2’);PATTERN(length, infield, outfield);

•HYYWD(date-time,’A10’) – YYYY-Www-d

•Fields may now be used as EDIT Masks.

•Plus: REVERSE, XTPACK, DEDIT,DSUBSTR

New MFD Attribute

•DATEPATTERN


New HOLD Format


HOLD FORMAT DFIX


Creates a user-specified delimited fileOptions:

DELIMITER = specifies the delimiter,

(may be specified in HEX )Alpha fields may be enclosed.

ENCLOSURE =File may contains column headings.

HEADER=Attributes specified in ACCESS File.


HOLD FORMAT DFIX


TABLE FILE EMPLOYEE SUM CSAL BY DEPARTMENT BY EID BY LN ON TABLE HOLD AS D1FIX FORMAT DFIX DELIMITER | ENCLOSURE “ HEADER YES END


HOLD FORMAT DFIX AS D1FIX


FILENAME=D1FIX , SUFFIX=DFIX , $ SEGMENT=D1FIX, SEGTYPE=S2, $ FIELDNAME=DEPARTMENT , ALIAS=E01, USAGE=A10,ACTUAL=A10, $ FIELDNAME=EMP_ID, ALIAS=E02, USAGE=A9, ACTUAL=A09, $ FIELDNAME=CURR_SAL, ALIAS=E03, USAGE=D12.2M,ACTUAL=A12, $

SEGNAME=D1FIX, DELIMITER=|, ENCLOSURE=", HEADER=YES, $


ENCLOSURE “, Header YES


"DEPARTMENT"|"EMP_ID"|"LAST_NAME"|"CURR_SAL" "MIS"|"112847612"|"SMITH"|13200.00 "MIS"|"117593129"|"JONES"|18480.00 "MIS"|"219984371"|"MCCOY"|18480.00 "MIS"|"326179357"|"BLACKWOOD"|21780.00 "MIS"|"543729165"|"GREENSPAN"|9000.00 "MIS"|"818692173"|"CROSS"|27062.00 "PRODUCTION"|"071382660"|"STEVENS"|11000.00 "PRODUCTION"|"119265415"|"SMITH"|9500.00 "PRODUCTION"|"119329144"|"BANNING"|29700.00 "PRODUCTION"|"123764317"|"IRVING"|26862.00 "PRODUCTION"|"126724188"|"ROMANS"|21120.00 "PRODUCTION"|"451123478"|"MCKNIGHT"|16100.00


New Reporting Options


SUBFOOT WITHIN


BY fieldname SUBFOOT WITHINON sortfieldname SUBFOOT WITHIN

• “ <fieldname <prefix.fieldname

•Generates {prefix.} fieldname WITHIN sortfieldname


SUBFOOT WITHIN


TABLE FILE EMPLOYEE

SUM CURR_SAL AS 'Salary' BY DPT

BY CURR_JOBCODE

ON DPT SUBFOOT WITHIN

"</1 Departmental Totals:"

" Average Salary is <AVE.CURR_SAL "

" Minimum Salary is <MIN.CURR_SAL "

" Maximum Salary is <MAX.CURR_SAL "

" TOTAL SALARY IS <CURR_SAL </1 "

ON TABLE SUBFOOT WITHIN

"Company Totals: "

" Average Salary is <AVE.CURR_SAL "

" Minimum Salary is <MIN.CURR_SAL "

" MAXIMUM Salary is <MAX.CURR_SAL "

" Total Salary is <CURR_SAL "

END


SUBFOOT WITHIN


DEPARTMENT CURR_JOBCODE Salary ---------- ------------ ------ MIS A07 $9,000.00 A17 $27,062.00 B02 $18,480.00 B03 $18,480.00 B04 $21,780.00 B14 $13,200.00 Departmental Totals: Average Salary is $18,000.33 Minimum Salary is $9,000.00 Maximum Salary is $27,062.00 TOTAL SALARY IS $108,002.00 PRODUCTION A01 $9,500.00 A07 $11,000.00 A15 $26,862.00 A17 $29,700.00


SUBFOOT WITHIN


DEPARTMENT CURR_JOBCODE Salary ---------- ------------ ------ PRODUCTION B02 $16,100.00 B04 $21,120.00 Departmental Totals: Average Salary is $19,047.00 Minimum Salary is $9,500.00 Maximum Salary is $29,700.00 TOTAL SALARY IS $114,282.00 Company Totals: Average Salary is $18,523.67 Minimum Salary is $9,000.00 MAXIMUM Salary is $29,700.00 Total Salary is $222,284.00


New Reporting Options

TABLE FILE HOLD1

SUM UNIT BY REGION BY ST ACROSS CATEGORY

END

CATEGORY

Coffee Food Gifts

REGION ST

Midwest IL 109581 118068 79932

MO 109943 115731 72053

TX 113253 107615 78869

Northeast CT 109491 114439 78510

DEFAULT - Sum

TABLE FILE HOLD1

PRINT UNIT BY REGION BY ST ACROSS CATEGORY END

CATEGORYCoffee Food Gifts

REGION STMidwest IL 52348 . .

. 58775 .

. . 3840557233 . .

. 59293 .

. . 41527MO 57236 . .

. 58581 .

. . 3531652707 . .

. 57150 .

. . 36737TX 57601 . .

. 54168 .

. . 4030555652 . .

. 53447 .

. . 38564Northeast CT 54140 . .

. 54283 .

. . 4118055351 . .

. 60156 .

. . 37330MA 60646 . .

. 60022 .

. . 3836748982 . .

. 53434 .

. . 40458NY 57667 . .

. 65258 .

. . 3649158992 . .

. 60215 .

. . 33703

DEFAULT - PRINT

SET ACROSSPRT = COMPRESS

TABLE FILE HOLD1

PRINT UNIT BY REGION BY ST ACROSS CATEGORY

END

CATEGORY

Coffee Food Gifts

REGION ST

Midwest IL 52348 58775 38405

57233 59293 41527

MO 57236 58581 35316

52707 57150 36737

TX 57601 54168 40305

55652 53447 38564

Northeast CT 54140 54283 41180

55351 60156 37330

MA 60646 60022 38367

48982 53434 40458

NY 57667 65258 36491

58992 60215 33703

Compressed PRINT




State: TX

Percent

of


Total 147,663 1,829,172

Houston Biscotti 14537 184912 101.81%


Coffee Pot 7912 97148 100.06%

Croissant 26130 325875 97.23%

Espresso 12424 157375 102.42%

Latte 43228 531995 98.53%

Mug 14463 176431 99.40%

Scone 12780 166045 99.36%

Thermos 8078 93081 95.77%

Output Page 4

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