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I have the following code aN IBI consultant left me with to cycle through the different databases we have, however it doesn't work - if we set the FOR loop from 1 to 7, it repeats the first item, DJ5, 7 times. Any ideas?
-REPEAT END_PAYROLL FOR &N FROM 1 TO 7; -SET &DATASRC = IF &N EQ 1 THEN 'DJ5' -ELSE IF &N EQ 2 THEN 'AFM5' -ELSE IF &N EQ 3 THEN 'PRC5' -ELSE IF &N EQ 4 THEN 'RI5' -ELSE IF &N EQ 5 THEN 'WF5' -ELSE IF &N EQ 6 THEN 'DJI5' -ELSE IF &N EQ 7 THEN 'TW5'; -SET &ENVRNMNT = 'PROD'; -INCLUDE siteprof -RUN
-REPEAT END_PAYROLL FOR &N FROM 1 TO 7; -SET &DATASRC = IF &N EQ 1 THEN 'DJ5' -ELSE IF &N EQ 2 THEN 'AFM5' -ELSE IF &N EQ 3 THEN 'PRC5' -ELSE IF &N EQ 4 THEN 'RI5' -ELSE IF &N EQ 5 THEN 'WF5' -ELSE IF &N EQ 6 THEN 'DJI5' -ELSE IF &N EQ 7 THEN 'TW5'; -SET &ENVRNMNT = 'PROD'; -TYPE &N &DATASRC -END_PAYROLL -RUN
as Tex points out, you don't have any ENDPAYROLL statment label. Look carefully at his code, he puts one in. and you need to initialize &N. so at the top of your fex, -SET &N = 0 ;
i didn't know we could use FOR syntax in loops. how delightfully Fortran. ..so thanx for the post.
Posts: 3811 | Location: Manhattan | Registered: October 28, 2003
The loop does not work properly if I change &N to a different variable name.
I tried Tex's code and it displays: 1 DJ5 2 AFM5 3 PRC5 4 RI5 5 WF5 6 DJI5 7 TW5
The entire fex file is below showing what else appears between the pasted code and the closing label of the loop: UNIX rm /home/reportcaster/jamis-dji-ap-total-export-vendor-master-1.txt -RUN FILEDEF jamis-dji-ap-total-export-vendor-master-1 DISK /home/reportcaster/jamis-dji-ap-total-export-vendor-master-1.txt (APPEND -RUN -REPEAT END_PAYROLL FOR &N FROM 1 TO 7; -SET &DATASRC = IF &N EQ 1 THEN 'DJ5' -ELSE IF &N EQ 2 THEN 'AFM5' -ELSE IF &N EQ 3 THEN 'PRC5' -ELSE IF &N EQ 4 THEN 'RI5' -ELSE IF &N EQ 5 THEN 'WF5' -ELSE IF &N EQ 6 THEN 'DJI5' -ELSE IF &N EQ 7 THEN 'TW5'; -SET &ENVRNMNT = 'PROD'; -INCLUDE siteprof -RUN -* TABLE FILE AP_VEND PRINT COMPUTE D_VEND_NNO/A37 = VEND_NO|'|'|VEND_NAME; AS '' ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM NOLEAD ON TABLE SET HOLDLIST PRINTONLY ON TABLE SAVE AS jamis-dji-ap-total-export-vendor-master-1 FORMAT ALPHA END -RUN -END_PAYROLL
I also commented out the INCLUDE siteprof and ran the fex and intialized N at the beginning of the fex and it's still cycling through DJ5 seven times.
The output is below - each data source should have a different number of records but it's listing the same number seven times so I know it's not actually going through each data source: ALPHANUMERIC RECORD NAMED JAMIS-DJ 0 FIELDNAME ALIAS FORMAT LENGTH D_EMP A57 57 TOTAL 116 1 0 NUMBER OF RECORDS IN TABLE= 6936 LINES= 6936 0 ALPHANUMERIC RECORD NAMED JAMIS-DJ 0 FIELDNAME ALIAS FORMAT LENGTH D_EMP A57 57 TOTAL 116 1 0 NUMBER OF RECORDS IN TABLE= 6936 LINES= 6936 0 ALPHANUMERIC RECORD NAMED JAMIS-DJ 0 FIELDNAME ALIAS FORMAT LENGTH D_EMP A57 57 TOTAL 116 1 0 NUMBER OF RECORDS IN TABLE= 6936 LINES= 6936 0 ALPHANUMERIC RECORD NAMED JAMIS-DJ 0 FIELDNAME ALIAS FORMAT LENGTH D_EMP A57 57 TOTAL 116 1 0 NUMBER OF RECORDS IN TABLE= 6936 LINES= 6936 0 ALPHANUMERIC RECORD NAMED JAMIS-DJ 0 FIELDNAME ALIAS FORMAT LENGTH D_EMP A57 57 TOTAL 116 1 0 NUMBER OF RECORDS IN TABLE= 6936 LINES= 6936 0 ALPHANUMERIC RECORD NAMED JAMIS-DJ 0 FIELDNAME ALIAS FORMAT LENGTH D_EMP A57 57 TOTAL 116 1 0 NUMBER OF RECORDS IN TABLE= 6936 LINES= 6936 0 ALPHANUMERIC RECORD NAMED JAMIS-DJ 0 FIELDNAME ALIAS FORMAT LENGTH D_EMP A57 57 TOTAL 116 1 0 NUMBER OF RECORDS IN TABLE= 6936 LINES= 6936 0
Apparently sitepref.fex is responsible for pointing AP_VEND to an appropriate datastore corresponding to &DATASRC. That's where I'd look next: Is "&DATASRC" the way it's spelled in siteprof, and is siteprof trouncing it.
Try this:
-SET &ECHO=ON; UNIX rm /home/reportcaster/jamis-dji-ap-total-export-vendor-master-1.txt -RUN FILEDEF jamis-dji-ap-total-export-vendor-master-1 DISK /home/reportcaster/jamis-dji-ap-total-export-vendor-master-1.txt (APPEND -RUN -REPEAT END_PAYROLL FOR &N FROM 1 TO 7; -SET &DATASRC = IF &N EQ 1 THEN 'DJ5' -ELSE IF &N EQ 2 THEN 'AFM5' -ELSE IF &N EQ 3 THEN 'PRC5' -ELSE IF &N EQ 4 THEN 'RI5' -ELSE IF &N EQ 5 THEN 'WF5' -ELSE IF &N EQ 6 THEN 'DJI5' -ELSE IF &N EQ 7 THEN 'TW5'; -SET &ENVRNMNT = 'PROD'; -TYPE @ BEFORE siteprof: n=&N, datasrc=&DATASRC -INCLUDE siteprof -RUN -TYPE @ AFTER siteprof: n=&N, datasrc=&DATASRC TABLE FILE AP_VEND PRINT COMPUTE D_VEND_NNO/A37 = VEND_NO|'|'|VEND_NAME; AS '' ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM NOLEAD ON TABLE SET HOLDLIST PRINTONLY ON TABLE SAVE AS jamis-dji-ap-total-export-vendor-master-1 FORMAT ALPHA END -RUN -TYPE @ AFTER report: n=&N, datasrc=&DATASRC -END_PAYROLL and post the messages.This message has been edited. Last edited by: <Mabel>,
Posts: 1925 | Location: NYC | In FOCUS since 1983 | Registered: January 11, 2005
Looking at SITEPROF, it was doing an APP APPENDPATH but needed to do an APP PATH first which wasn't listed. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.