The whole premise was to use the existing reports that are presently designed and not re-engineer them.
Like many systems, this one is full of finished reports (both english and databasic) and the object is to send them to the hold-file and convert from there. I don't want to re-invent the report generation logic, just use the hold files. Thanks ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kate Stanton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 6:51 PM Subject: Re: [U2] Hold-file to CSV > Have you thought of using REFORMAT instead of SORT, so the data is easier to > handle? I agree, tabs would be better than commas as delimiters. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 2:15 PM > Subject: [U2] Hold-file to CSV > > > > I'm at the threshold of wanting (needing) to convert print jobs in the > > &HOLD& > > (or PEQS if you really must know) file into CSV's. This does not mean > > re-generating the reports, rather digesting the held print job, > > identifying > > the header, removing the redundant headers and identifying the column > > positions into a CSV for obvious downstream purposes. > > > > I'm half way through writing a parsing program and wondered if there were > > any > > other suggestions. > > > > Thanks in advance. > > Mark Johnson > > ------- > > u2-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
