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PRTFIL

Each PRTFIL function specifies the layout and processing you use when printing records from an access path. It specifies the indentation of any embedded PRTOBJ functions within the overall report design. It specifies all global properties of the report such as page size and page headings.

• A print file function must be based on a Retrieval(RTV), Resequence(RSQ), or Query(QRY) access path.
• Calls to embedded PRTOBJ functions are inserted at the appropriate points in the action diagram of the embedding function.
• Each PRTFIL function has its own default report design that can be edited. Embedded PRTOBJ report designs are shown as part of the PRTFIL report design but are protected and cannot be edited directly. Only the indentation (distance of embedded design from the left-hand margin of the report) can be changed.

A PRTFIL function and its embedded PRTOBJ functions are implemented as a single i OS printer device file (PRTF) plus a single HLL program.