Adding Programming Logic to a Report › Using Counters › What You Can Do

What You Can Do

You can count occurrences, or the number of times an event happens during processing.

How to Do It

• Conditionally, by coding:
  1. A numeric work field:

     010 COUNTER-A
     

  2. A computation that adds 1 to the value of the work field whenever counting should occur:

     017100 COUNTER-A + 1  COUNTER-A
     

• Automatically, by coding:
  1. A numeric work field.

     010 COUNTER-B
     

  2. A value you want assigned each time counting occurs. Typically, this value is 1:

     010 COUNTER-B 1
     

  3. The name of the work field on a type 5 parameter:

     0151*010 COUNTER-B (Prints the value each time)
     
     or
     
     0151*000 COUNTER-B (Does not print the value)
     

  4. The name of the work field on a type 6 parameter when the total count should be printed on the report.

     0161*010 COUNTER-B
     

     Type 6 parameters are coded the same way as type 5.

     For more information see the chapter "Controlling Total Lines".