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Service Procedure

The service procedure is an NCL procedure whose purpose is to provide the generator with data to be used to generate a report. The service procedure knows the database from which the data is to be retrieved and the format of the data. The name of the service procedure is defined in the report application to which the report belongs and is executed by the generator.

Functions of the service procedure are as follows:

• Initialization processing, for example, opening files and searching the database
• Get the next record to be processed
• Get the value of the sort fields for the next record to be processed
• Termination processing, for example, closing files