Hi All,

I am writing a report for my business which uses a connection to a Postgres database (a view) and displays the results out. It uses an SQLOUT file. Now, I have placed the following code right after the query is pulled out from postgre so I can see the data types and the length of columns

-*?FF SQLOUT

I get the following results

-* FILENAME= SQLOUT
-* business_id E01 I11
-* name E02 A64
-* address E03 A128
-* state E04 A3
-* voice_telephone E05 A16
-* email E06 A64

Now, I want to change the data type for business_id so use a compute statement to convert it from an I11 to an A11. Now, how and where can I place the ?FF SQLOUT to see these changes. These are for my testing purposes as I will have to carry out data conversions.

My Code is executed as follows (please note: the initial like of ?FF SQLOUT is commented out as this is the first time when I want to see the data types.) The one placed at the end AFTER the COMPUTE returns an error

CODE

-DEFAULT &VIEW_NAME = 'business_test';
SET EMPTYREPORT=ON
ENGINE SQLPSTGR SET DEFAULT_CONNECTION reports
ENGINE SQLPSTGR SET VARCHAR OFF
SQL SQLPSTGR PREPARE SQLOUT FOR

SELECT * FROM &VIEW_NAME limit 30;
END
-RUN
-*?FF SQLOUT
-*-EXIT

TABLE FILE SQLOUT
PRINT
COMPUTE ID2/A11 = TRIM('B',FPRINT(business_id, 'I11', 'A11'), 11, ' ', 1, 'A11'); AS 'Businessid'
name
address
state
voice_telephone
email

?FF SQLOUT
-EXIT

ON TABLE NOTOTAL
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT HTML
END


Note that I have placed the ?FF SQLOUT after the query has been manipulated. The error is
(FOC003) THE FIELDNAME IS NOT RECOGNIZED: SET
BYPASSING TO END OF COMMAND
(FOC009) INCOMPLETE REQUEST STATEMENT

Any help on this?
Thanks,

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

You're putting a ?FF command before the END statement of a TABLE command - no good.

?FF is a command that provides info on the columns in a Master, be it a HOLD file or not. In your case it's a HOLD file called SQLOUT. The COMPUTE operates on the HOLD file - having a second ?FF SQLOUT statement in the correct place will not provide new info. You need to add ON TABLE HOLD AS hold-file-name to the TABLE FILE SQLOUT command and then do a ?FF hold-file-name after the END statement.

But you can easily predict that ID2 is A11.

Thanks Francis for your help!

I have added a new hold file and when I do an ?FF on the hold file it does show the conversion.

[SOLVED]

Did you ever consider the use of a master file against the sqlview?
It would give you much more flexibility, you can do the field descriptions and computes in the master and from that point all the reporting can be done in against that master file instead against the SQL script