Specifying Options formatting options
You use the Options formatting options to define miscellaneous options that control the appearance of the report.
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| Element | Description |
|---|---|
| Detail spacing | Specify the number of lines for the spacing between tabular data lines or detail blocks. This value must be a number between 1 and 999. |
| Line wrapping width | This field applies only to forms created using the ISPF version of the application QMF for TSO/CICS. Specify the number of characters at which to wrap the columns in the report. The range is between 0 and 999 or the word NONE. |
| Report text line width | For reports, specify the width of the final text,
detail heading text, detail block text, and break text in a report.
The range is between 1 and 32767, or the words DEFAULT or COLUMNS.
For DEFAULT, break footing text and final footing text use the full width of all columns up to the first summary column. For COLUMNS, all text areas use the full width of all columns. |
| Number of fixed columns in report | Specify the number of columns that remain in place when you scroll reports horizontally on the screen or break reports onto multiple pages when printing. The range is between 1 and 999, or the word NONE. |
| Outlining for break columns | Select this check box to display the value in columns with the BREAK usage code when the value changes. |
| Default break text (*) | Select this check box to generate break footing
text in breaks for which you did not indicate break footing text.
The default break text consists of one asterisk for the highest numbered break level text, two asterisks for the next-highest numbered break level text, and so on. |
| Function name in column heading when grouping | Select this check box to add the name of the summarization function to the heading of the aggregated columns, if a report has summarized columns and you use the GROUP usage code to suppress the tabular data lines. |
| Column wrapped lines kept on a page | This field applies only to forms created using
the ISPF version of the application QMF for
TSO/CICS. Select this check box to split wrapped columns between two pages, if you specified column wrapping for one or more columns. |
| Across summary column | Select this check box to display the automatically generated ACROSS summary column, which produces additional columns that summarize (total) across the specified columns. |
| Automatic reordering of report columns | Select this check box to automatically reorder
the columns in a report when you specify a BREAK or GROUP usage code,
or one of the aggregating usage codes. If selected, the columns are reordered so that BREAK columns are to the far left, GROUP columns are to the left after BREAK columns, all non-aggregated columns are to the left after BREAK and GROUP columns, and all aggregated columns are to the far right. |
| Page renumbering at the highest break level | Select this check box if a printed report should
begin a new page beginning with the number 1 whenever the value in
the control column of the highest break level changes. Note: The
highest break level is the one with the lowest number.
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| Column heading separator | Select this check box to display a row of dashed lines between the column headings and the tabular data lines. |
| Across heading separator | Select this check box to mark columns in ACROSS reports with dashed lines and arrows. |
| Break summary separator | Select this check box to display a row of equal signs between the tabular data lines and the break summary. |
| Final summary separator | Select this check box to display a row of equal signs between the tabular data lines and the final summary. |
| Place LOB contents inline | Select this check box to display LOB contents inline in the contents of the form. |