Box Search Enhancement

You can specify report identification text for reports. These text definitions provide search criteria to identify and select pages for inclusion in a stacked report.

The Box Search feature provides better control of the selection process. You can now specify search criteria using the beginning and ending lines, columns, or both. This combination produces the coordinates of a box to isolate the search. In previous releases, you could specify only a specific line, column, all lines, or all columns.

Example:

The following definition searches for the word summary from lines 1 to 5, in the columns 45 to 65.

Report Identification Text: Line Column Sel Typ R Op Beg End Beg End Text PAG N EQ 1 5 45 65 'SUMMARY'

The Box Search feature supports search operators of:

Equal (EQ)
Not equal (NE)
Less than (LT)
Less than or equal (LE)
Greater than (GT)
Greater than or equal (GE)

For the EQ, LT, LE, GT, and GE operators, the search text is compared against each column within the column and line range.

If the comparison of any column matches the specified operator, the evaluation is considered true.
For the NE operator, the evaluation is considered true if the search text is not found anywhere within the column and line range.

In previous releases of CA Deliver, the LT and GT operator for a column and/or line range of “*” was treated as a NE evaluation, and the LE and GE operator was treated as an EQ evaluation.

The LT, GT, LE, and GE operators are now supported with a column and/or line range of “*” in Version 12.0. If these operators were used with a column and/or line designation of “*”, change the operator for theses specifications to NE or EQ for correct evaluation in Version 12.0. RMOGRW07 is a sample GRW program provided in CAI.CVDEJCL. It produces a report to identify report definitions with text selection statements that must be changed. Run this GRW against all Deliver databases and change the required NE or EQ before putting the Version 12.0 loadlib into production.