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Report Exit

The purpose of a report exit procedure is to let the user do specialized processing, based on installation requirements, while the report is being generated. For example, data can have arithmetic performed upon it or it can be conditionally suppressed.

The report exit procedure knows the format of the data, that is, the names of the variables that contain the data and the format of that data. The name of the report exit procedure is defined in the report definition and is executed by the generator.

Functions performed by the report exit procedure are as follows:

• Initialization processing, for example, define vartables
• Item processing, for example, complex arithmetic
• Termination processing, for example, delete vartables.