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William Zhu
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Hello,

Like the webfocus example FOC datasource CAR under the \ibisamp, I want to create a test FOC datasource for my personal use.

Can someone tell me how to create a FOC datasource file like CAR example?

Thanks,
William

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webfocus 5.3
WebFOCUS 7.1.x
WebFOCUS 7.6.x
WebFOCUS 7.7.x
Unix
Excel / HTML / PDF
 
Posts: 17 | Registered: February 06, 2009Report This Post
GinnyJakes
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The question is: how are you going to get data into it?

There are two basic ways to do this.

Write a report against a file that has data that you want to populate the new file and hold the output in FOCUS format. E.g.

APP HOLD dirname
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT SALES RETAIL_COST DELEAR_COST
BY COUNTRY
BY CAR
BY MODEL
ON TABLE HOLD AS CARFOC FORMAT FOCUS INDEX COUNTRY
END


This creates both the .mas and .foc files in the 'dirname' directory.

Another way is to use the synonym editor to create the master for your FOCUS file. You might want to add the DATASET parameter. Then issue a CREATE FILE against the master to physically create the file.

You now have to figure out how to load it. You can use a FIXFORM MODIFY or a MAINTAIN procedure to do this. There are also other ways.

This is only to help you get started. You need some training and you need to do a little reading. Good luck.


Ginny
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William Zhu
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WFRS

Thanks!

This is exactly what I want to know.


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FrankDutch
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Or you can do this

APP FI MASTER DISK YOURNAME.MAS
-RUN
-WRITE MASTER FILENAME=YOURNAME, SUFFIX=FOC
-WRITE MASTER SEGNAME=ONE, SEGTYPE=S1
-WRITE MASTER FIELDNAME=FIELD0    ,ALIAS=    ,USAGE=A2 ,$
-WRITE MASTER FIELDNAME=FIELD1    ,ALIAS=    ,USAGE=P6.4 ,$
-WRITE MASTER FIELDNAME=FIELD2    ,ALIAS=    ,USAGE=P4.2 ,$
CREATE FILE YOURNAME
MODIFY FILE YOURNAME
FREEFORM FIELD0 FIELD1 FIELD2
DATA
'A1',0.0027,0.57,$
'A2',0.0041,0.58,$
'B1',0.0058,0.59,$
'B2',0.0080,0.60,$
'B3',0.0106,0.61,$
'C1',0.0138,0.62,$
END
-RUN


If you run this it creates a FOCFILE with fields you can create yourself filled with your data.




Frank
prod: WF 7.6.10 platform Windows,
databases: msSQL2000, msSQL2005, RMS, Oracle, Sybase,IE7
test: WF 7.6.10 on the same platform and databases,IE7

 
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William Zhu
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Hi Frank,

I tested your code, it's great!

But I need to add the DATASET parameter to make it work (to generate the FOC data file) on our environment.

Thanks,


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