Xerox 701P21091 manual Rstack command, Rstack delimiter modes

Using logical processing

RSTACK command

The stacked reports feature enables you to define a series of reports in a single file. This is accomplished by specifying the end of the report in the coded logical processing commands.

The printer stacks reports in a file if more than one report is included in a single file (or a single spooled host file identified by the banner pages). In processing stacked reports, the system checks each record for the logical “end of report” specification as defined by the RSTACK TEST parameter.

When you use RSTACK for report separation, the end of the report occurs as soon as the test criteria are satisfied. However, when BANNER is coded, you specify the number of consecutive banner pages that must satisfy the test criteria before end of report occurs.

Report separation based on banner page detection is performed with the BANNER command. When you use RSTACK for report separation, the end of the report occurs as soon as the test expression is satisfied. However, when BANNER is coded, you specify the number of consecutive banner pages that must satisfy the test criteria before the end of the report occurs, and report separation occurs on a page boundary.

RSTACK delimiter modes

There are two modes of stacked reports: delimiter and nondelimiter.

•In delimiter mode, the record satisfying the TEST criteria is not part of the data for the report that follows the delimiter, but simply serves to separate or delimit one report from another.

•In nondelimiter mode, reports are “stacked” one after the other without any special records separating them.

The two modes are specified by the DELIMITER parameter of the RSTACK command.

Delimiter mode If DELIMITER=YES is coded (delimiter mode), you may actually separate each report with multiple successive records, each of which satisfies the test expression of the RSTACK command. In this case, all consecutive delimiters are treated as a delimiter packet.

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