| Title: | FOCUS, from INFORMATION BUILDERS |
| Moderator: | ZAYIUS::BROUILLETTE |
| Created: | Thu Feb 19 1987 |
| Last Modified: | Mon May 05 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 615 |
| Total number of notes: | 1779 |
Hi,
I am turning to all you FOCUS guru's out there, in the hope that
someone can help to solve a problem.
As I am a very new user of FOCUS my experience is VERY limited.
On top of that; I've no userguide!
Firstly; I am trying to create a master file that will interact with
an ASC11 sequential datatrieve flat file, I have defined the master file,
and no errors appear.
The problem is that FOCUS won't pick up the actual data from the (.dat)
file, after I've selected the report parameters via tabletalk. The
output has the header details etc, but no data ?????
My questions are eg:
* What suffix should the master file be, if the datatrieve file is either
sequential or indexed.
* Should fillers be used in the focus master file!!
* Are there commands that should be invoked etc
* Or(to put it simply) *
What is the total procedure involved in getting FOCUS to read the data
from the datatrieve extraction(s).
Any advice would be greatly welcomed, as this is driving me nuts!!!
John Wilson (dtn-7823 x3353)
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| 308.1 | COGVAX::SSDEV | Tue Feb 13 1990 15:28 | 11 | ||
RMS Sequential files are described with a suffix of FIX, while RMS
Keyed files use a Suffix of ISAM, i.e. SUFFIX=FIX,$
Additionally, Keyed files can be described with the keyed field
identified with a Fieldtype of I, i.e. FIELDTYPE=I,$
I think you may need a FILEDEF statement in your code something
like the following:
FILEDEF MYFILE DISK MYFILE.DAT
This would identify the file you want to access to FOCUS.
Joel Kurzon @ MRO
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