What fields are included in the SUMFILE?

Products

• Easytrieve Report Generator

Issue/Introduction

Produce a summary file by defining the file in the library and then referencing it with the REPORT SUMFILE parameter.

What fields are included in the SUMFILE?

 

 

Environment

Easytrieve Report Generator, release 11.6

Resolution

Environment: 

 

The summary file record contains three parts:

1. Control field area—A concatenation of the control fields specified on the CONTROL statement. The sum of the lengths of the control fields defines the length of the control field area.
2. TALLY—A 10-byte field.
3. Summed field area—A concatenation of summed fields to form the remaining segment of the summary file record. Each summed field is a 10-byte packed field with the same decimal specification as the source field.

 

Only quantitative fields from the LINE statement of the report are included.

 

SUMFILE data is the contents of control fields and accumulators at each minor control break.