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Step 4 - Sort Your Report Rows and Specify Group Calculations

In this step, you sort your report rows by salary grade, and compute the average salary in each salary grade. Start on the Report Format - Sort screen. To get there, type sort in the command line.

Sort your rows in ascending order by salary grade; group your report rows by salary grade. Sort within salary grade by salary amount.

CA OLQ Release nn.n *** Report Format - Sort *** -> Page 1 of 1 133000 Specify sort or group by request and press the ENTER key Disp Sort Order Group By Seq Priority (A/D) Level # EMPLOYEE X EMP-LAST-NAME-0415 1 _ _ _ X SS-NUMBER-0415 2 _ _ _ EMPOSITION X SALARY-GRADE-0420 3 1 a 1 X SALARY-AMOUNT-0420 4 2 a _ Display lines: Detail X and/or Summary X Group by all _ Compute: 1=HELP 3=QUIT 4=MESSAGE 5=DISPLAY 6=MENU 11=HEADER

For each salary grade group, calculate the average salary amount.

CA OLQ Release nn.n *** Report Format - Group By *** -> Page 1 OF 1 136000 Specify summary computations and press the ENTER key Group by: SALARY-GRADE-0420 Level# 1 Seq Sum Avg Max Min Count _ EMPLOYEE X EMP-LAST-NAME-0415 1 _ _ _ _ X SS-NUMBER-0415 2 _ _ _ _ EMPOSITION X SALARY-GRADE-0420 3 _ _ _ _ X SALARY-AMOUNT-0420 4 _ x _ _ Skip lines after group 1 Separator character - Compute: 1=HELP 3=QUIT 4=MESSAGE 5=DISPLAY 6=MENU 10=PICTURE

CA OLQ displays the average salary for each salary grade group.

CA OLQ Release nn.n *** Display Report *** -> Page 1 Line 1 125000 Press the ENTER key to go to the next page of the report. EMPLOYEE/EMPOSITION REPORT mm/dd/yy SOCIAL SECURITY SALARY NAME NUMBER GRADE SALARY ─────────────── ─────────── ────── ────────────────────── FITZHUGH 11-234-5678 11 13000.00 TERNER 04-567-2222 11 13000.00 JOHNSON 01-134-7878 11 13500.00 ─────────── AVE FOR 11: 13166.66 NICEMAN 03-345-6110 12 14000.00 GARDNER 02-233-4444 12 14000.00 KRAAMER 02-378-6666 12 14000.00 KING 06-784-5516 12 14500.00 - 1 - 1=HELP 3=QUIT 4=MESSAGE 6=MENU 8=FWD 10=LEFT 11=RIGHT