Re: Suggestions wanted on reducing time to assemble month-end invoices

[Buck Calabro <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/2/2017 5:53 PM, Vernon Hamberg wrote:
> Hi Buck
>
> OK, that kind of thing has been on our minds.
>
> The separator page - if using the PRTF or OUTQ or maybe even the DEVD
> setting, it's possible for the printer to refuse to print them - so I
> suppose that would need to be part of a PRTF - and with the DRAWER()
> keyword, maybe, eh?

One could either modify the first (statement) program to print the
separator page from DRAWER(3) or call a completely new program to print it.

> > An alternative is to slightly alter the printing programs to print
> > papers for exactly one customer.  They get called by a driver that feeds
> > customer numbers one by one:
> > CALL DRIVER
> >    FETCH NEXT CUSTOMER
      CALL SEPARATOR (customerID)
        write DRAWER3

> >    CALL STATEMENT (customerID)
> >      write DRAWER1
> >      ...
> >    CALL INVOICE (customerID)
> >      write DRAWER2
> >      ...