Report Mock-Up Rules

Restriction: This topic applies only when the AppMaster Builder AddPack has been installed, and applies only to Windows platforms.

The first character of the report mock-up name must be alphabetic, @, or #; the remaining characters can be alphabetic, numeric, @, $, or #.
Reports can be a maximum of 200 lines and 247 columns.
Paint lines as they appear within their report group.
Include any blank lines that appear between the first and last lines of a report group in the mock-up.
To minimize programming, include blank lines preceding or following a report group in the mock-up.
Paint the line or lines that compose a DETAIL group only once.
Each field that composes a line must be shown with a COBOL picture for variable data or with the literal for fixed data.
Within the layout of a line, position each field in the desired printing position with exact spacing between fields.
Show a floating-point item in the mock-up with a COBOL picture in floating-point form. The same picture must be repeated in a PIC phrase in the corresponding SOURCE, SUM, or VALUE statement.
In your program, the data field PIC strings on the mock-up must match the detail line data item descriptions in your Report Section. Report Writer matches the mock-up fields to the program field descriptions from left to right, from top to bottom.