5 replies to this topic

[Rob Donovan]

Hi,

Use the logic command SET_RPTOPT to set the filename the report goes to.

E.G. in 'LOGIC IN' of the report function

SET_RPTOPT('filename' + @TERM,'8','')

This will make the report go to a unique filename for each user.

Note: It will overwrite any file that is already there!

You could even put a system command in 'LOGIC OUT' of the report to copy the file to the users home directory.

Rob D

[Rob Fantini]

I use @RPTOPT or SET_RPTOPT also.

But our users working directory is always their HOME
directory, so the file gets created there.

I set PRODATA and then pro4 knows where to
find our isam and c-isam files. @RPTOPT and I think SET_RPTOPT
ignore the PRODATA enviorment variable and create report files
in the current working directory.

We use SCO Unix.

THis is the script I use to run proIV:

DATE_SC_50=Y;export DATE_SC_50
CDATE_50=Y;export CDATE_50
#
case $TERM in
wy60) PROTERM=WY6;;
scoansi|ansi) PROTERM=XENIXCLR;;
esac
export PROTERM

ISAMBUFS=80;export ISAMBUFS # needed for C-ISAM files
PROPATH=`cat /u4/pro/Release`; export PROPATH
INFORMIXDIR=$PROPATH; export INFORMIXDIR
PRODATA=/u ;export PRODATA

case `logname` in
root|rob) PRORUNTYPE=DEV ;;
*) PRORUNTYPE=RUN;;
esac
export PRORUNTYPE

$PROPATH/pro `logname`

[David Tuke]

Under unix (solaris and equivalents)
A useful way to generate a unique filename (for a session) is to define an environment variable
eg PID=$$ before invoking pro, eg in a startup script. PID is actually a unix process number
(ie for the currect process will be an integer in the range approx 100 to 32767)
We define this in our startup scripts,
and it consequently can be accessed within the proiv session as an environment variable.
within the proiv function, we can alias or use set_rptopt and use the &$@~PID
vaiable in the name. then we can safely use the /tmp directory to store transitory but
uniqie temporary flat files. when solaris starts up, this directory is automatically cleared.
other methods tend to litter the directories with these temporary files which then have to be hunted
out and deleted.

ciao
david tuke

[Rob Donovan]

Hi,

Where did you learn about the '&$@~xxxx' Value Vars......

Didn't know about that one!!! Quite useful.

Is it supported or is it a 'Reserved for MDIS' one?

Thanks,

Rob D

[Clarence Owens]

They're standard and supported, as per the 'Native Pro-IV Version 4 Developer's Guide Document No. 100709 Revision B'. I just was searching for info on the new file modes X, M and R and ran into the info on accessing the environment variables on page 5-12 of my manual.

I never did find anything about file mode 'X' in the Pro-IV book but it looks like that's Superlayer's version of the Pro-IV file mode 'R'. Ya gotta love it...