RE: is there a better way...

[<Rick.Chevalier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim,

I would use a user space or maybe a user index if you wanted the summary at 
page end to be sorted.  

User spaces are conceptually just really big data areas.  There are as group of 
API's that handle creation, writing, and reading information to and from them.  
They can also be access using a pointer it that is allowed in your shop.  You 
would define a layout (probably using a data structure) that would contain the 
fee description and an amount field.  This structure would be repeated for the 
number of different fees found on the PO.  To print the fees at the bottom 
simply read through the list built as the PO was read and print each item.  
This link should take you to the user space API documentation. 
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r2/ic2924/index.htm

User indexes function very much the same except that you identify a specific 
number of bytes at the beginning of each entry to be the key.  In your case 
this would be the fee type.  Add entries to the index as the line items are 
read.  Read through the entries at the end of each PO and print the fee types.  
This link should take you to the user index API documentation.  
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r2/ic2924/index.htm

There is also quite a bit of information in the archives on using user spaces 
and indexes in similar situations.

Rick

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Hatzenbeler, Tim
> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 1:56 PM
> To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
> Subject: is there a better way...
> 
> 
> 
> I'm reading a PO, and there are various charges through each line of
> detail... And I was asked to group the charges at the bottom 
> of the page...
> 
> line 1 
>      tax 8.96
>      frt 12.45
>      delivery 45.67
> line 2 
>      tax 9.12
> line3
>      frt 9.23
> 
> 
> and at the bottom of the page, i need
>      tax xx.xx
>      frt xx.xx
>      delivery xx.xx
> 
> so I was was thinking about using a mods to do this... With a 
> simple add,
> find, update procedure...  But I was wondering, if there were 
> better arrary
> handling features in the latest  versions of rpg, to handle this...
> d chargegroup     ds                  occurs(999) inz        
> d  chargedesc                   30                           
> d  chargetotal                  17  2                        
> 
> but, i'm not allowed to use embedded sql grouping / sum 
> features... It has
> to be all old fashioned rpg code...
> 
> I can't hard code these charge types, they can change anytime 
> accounting
> feels like it...
> 
> Thanks, tim
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