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Nova27
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Hello everyone,

I am trying to build a report which calls a SQL stored procedure (Oracle database).
The stored procedure will send the results as a text string variable (data separated by comma) or in a HTML formatted file – how do we display the result as a tabular report in webfocus?

I have worked with storing results in a Hold file and displaying the hold file, but usually the hold file is already formatted in form of columns and all we have to do is re-format data types and print the result.
I have not come across a comma separated data file in the form of a text variable which needs to be displayed in a tabular way. I am not sure how to go about displaying this in webfocus, is this possible?

Thanks in advance!

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Hi Nova27

If you create a synonym for the stored procedure you can use WebFOCUS directly with that metadata and get the results back just like any other request.


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Wep5622
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Is the output comma-separated the same as in CSV format?

If that is the case, it may work to hold the results in ALPHA format and then reading it as if it were DFIX format.


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Nova27
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Hi Wep5622,

How do we read a dataset as if it were DFIX format? I haven't done that before so not sure how to do that.

Can you please explain?

Thanks!


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Hi Nova27

If you create a synonym for the stored procedure you can use WebFOCUS directly with that metadata and get the results back just like any other request.


Hi Chuck,
How do I create a synonym for a stored procedure? I thought we could only create synonyms for tables/views.

Thanks!


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Use the Synonym builder on the Reporting Server Console. You can choose Stored Procedures from the Object Type drop-down box.



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Originally posted by Nova27:
How do we read a dataset as if it were DFIX format? I haven't done that before so not sure how to do that.


I'm not at all sure that that is going to work; just thinking out of the box here Wink

The idea is that you create a master file that describes the DFIX format in the (ALPHA) file. It may be possible to use the GUI "Create synonym" functionality, otherwise you will probably have to fabricate one using EX LINES=n, etc. There are some examples of that in this forum. It looks intimidating at first, but it's really just a way of saying: write the next n lines to the specified file.

I suggest, if you go the route of fabricating the master, that you first try that with an actual CSV file to learn the ropes, before trying it on a file to which it may after all not apply.


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If you know the number of columns (commas) in the returned comma-delimited data, you can use DEFINE or COMPUTE to create the individual report columns..


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