Defining Reports That Contain Control Breaks › Defining a Report Containing Control Breaks › Step 3: Specify Control Break Identification Criteria

Step 3: Specify Control Break Identification Criteria

1. Obtain a printout of the SYSOUT data set that contains the quarterly sales data you extract for the report.
2. Look for the best text to use to separate the pages in the data set.

   You determine that the region number in the title on each page in the data set is the best text to use. When 01 changes to 02 in the data set, a control break occurs and the system inserts a separator page in the report at that point.

3. Do the following on the Report Definition Attributes panel:
   1. Enter 2 in the Line field.
   2. Enter 8 in the Col field.
   3. Enter 2 in the Length field.
   4. Enter 2 in Field 1 under Line.
   5. Enter 1 in Field 1 under Col.
   6. Enter 9 in Field 1 under Length.

      CA Deliver ------------- Report Definition Attributes -------------------------
      Command ===> 
      

      
        ID     ---> U50500-R01                            Job    ---> U50500        
        Step   ---> QSALESTP     Procstep --->            DD     ---> QREPORT 
                                                          Type   ---> CNTL
      

      
      Control Break Identification:
         Line  : 2                Normalized: YES
         Col   : 8                Separator : SEPARATE
         Length: 2
      

      
      User Field Identification:
                   Line   Col   Length                 Line   Col   Length
         Field 1:  2      1      9           Field 2:
         Field 3:                            Field 4:
         Field 5:                            Field 6:
         Field 7:                            Field 8:
         Field 9:
      

   The defaults for the Normalized field (YES) and the Separator field (SEPARATE) are used.

4. Enter END on the command line, and press Enter to display the Report Definition Attributes panel.

   When you exit the Report Definition Attributes panel, the data you entered for report 1 is saved in the database.

The following illustration shows the reports processed by CA Deliver: