IBM SC41-5210-04 manual Wrapping width in Query for iSeries reports

N=No

The data for each output record is not to be wrapped when the length of the output record exceeds

the width of the report line. Instead, any extra fields on the right end of each record are dropped. If N

is specified, the next two prompts are ignored.

Wrapping width in Query for iSeries reports

For displayed or printed output only, you can specify a value that indicates the maximum width of the lines in the report. Either type a value of 1 through 378 or leave this prompt blank.

Note: For DBCS-graphic fields, Query adds DBCS shift-out and shift-in characters before showing the fields in a displayed or printed report. Variable-length DBCS values are extended to the full field length.

If all of the fields of an output record cannot fit within the specified width of one line of the report, the field that would exceed the specified width is started on the next line. If you leave this prompt blank, wrapping occurs whenever the maximum width of the specified display, or printer is reached.

If you specify too small a width, some column headings, fields, or summary function values may be truncated or dropped from the report. If such a problem occurs, you can either make changes here or to the Column Spacing or Column Heading prompts on the Specify Report Column Formatting display. To see the fields in which this may occur, press F13 (Layout). Error messages are shown for each field in error.

Record on one page in Query for iSeries reports

When line wrapping can occur, you can specify whether you want to prevent records from being split across pages of your printed report. Type a Y or N to indicate whether you want all of each record to be on the same page in the report.

Y=Yes

Each record is to have all its fields kept together on the same page. If there is not enough room left on the current page to contain all of its fields, the complete record is displayed or printed on the next page.

N=No

Records that start near the end of one page are split as necessary and continued at the top of the next page. The split occurs after the last complete field that fits on the full page, with the remainder of the fields in the record continued on the next page.

Displaying wrapping widths in Query for iSeries reports

You can use F13 (Layout) to show the effect of various wrapping widths. If you do, you see that wrapping is not a simple matter of continuing each formatted report line on the next line when the wrapping width is reached:

v Page, break, and final text lines are not wrapped, and are truncated without warning if the wrapping width is too small.

v Column headings wrap as a band of aligned lines, not individually.

v The Column spacing value specified on the Specify Report Column Formatting display for the first field in the output is used to indent each wrapped line.

v The Column spacing value may or may not be carried over to the next line, as shown in the example below. If a field cannot fit on the end of a line, all of that field is carried over to the next line along with any fields that follow it. The Column Spacing value for a wrapped field may show up as blanks after the field on the previous line, as blanks before the wrapped field, or a combination thereof.

The following example shows the original report and the report showing wrapping that occurs if the wrapping width is set to 15.

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