Hi Folks,
My problem is that I need to show some zero records for a few labels. Its hard to describe but its stuff we've all come across...

 
DAY     COUNT
Monday     10
Tuesday    22
Friday     38

But I would also like to show the other days with zero records/counts:

  
DAY     COUNT
Monday     10
Tuesday    22
Wednesday   0
Thursday    0
Friday     38

Now, I've inherited code where the coder is doing exactly this. He is making a hold file with the 0 data, and appended it to another table (the table with the non-zero data) via the MORE command. I've tried to use that code as a template, but I'm having problems. I am getting FOC1175 (NO REFERENCE TO FIELD DATA) when I try to create the zero record. This is the code:

  
TABLEF FILE SYSTABLE
SUM	
	COMPUTE TESTME/I1 = 0;
WHERE READLIMIT EQ 1
WHERE RECORDLIMIT EQ 1
ON TABLE HOLD AS ZERO1
END

Any tips?

I also wanted to add that this dude seems to have went this way but he never posted the code.

Oh... I'm using SQL Server

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Shingles,

I think this should work for you:

 
SET HOLDLIST=PRINTONLY
TABLEF FILE SYSTABLE
SUM NAME NOPRINT
    COMPUTE TESTME/I1 = 0;
WHERE READLIMIT EQ 1
WHERE RECORDLIMIT EQ 1
ON TABLE HOLD AS ZERO1
END 

That seems to have worked... thank you... doing a little more testing...

As a possible alternative, when you are a reporting a set of logical and unchanging categories (like days of the week), you may consider skipping the blank data generation and simply defining your rows or columns explicity:

 TABLE FILE CAR
SUM CNT.SEATS
BY SEATS ROWS 1 OVER 2 OVER 3 OVER 4 OVER 5 OVER 6 OVER 7
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT HTML
END 

This might be a more elegant solution in some circumstances - useless in others. Best of luck!