Field Names

Field names are used to reference and maintain information or data by the general report writer:

Database field references information from the database.
Database fields are presented chronologically and by database record.
Defined field saves information independent from the database.
These fields are defined by the DEFINE control statement.
Reserved field contains the current date, current time, line size, column position, and so on.

Each field name can contain a single type of data. The types of data that can be maintained are as follows:

Dates are maintained as number of days from January 1, 1900 in a binary format.

Julian dates are carried as 4-byte, packed fields defined as 0CYYDDDF.

where:

C Represents the century as follows:
0 Represents years 1990 through 1999
1 Represents years 2000 through 2099

YY Represents the last two digits of the year

DDD Represents the day of the year (000 to 366)

F Represents the 4-bit sign character