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Page Heading Group Presentation Rules

The table below points to the appropriate presentation rules for all permissible combinations of LINE NUMBER and NEXT GROUP clauses in a page heading report group.

Table 1. Page Heading Group Presentation Rules
¹		Applicable Rules²
¹		If the PAGE Clause is specified³
Sequence of LINE NUMBER Clauses⁴	NEXT GROUP Clause	Upper Limit	Lower Limit	First Print Line Position	Next Group	Final LINE COUNTER Setting
AR	Absolute	1	2	3a		4a
R	Relative	1	2	3b		4a
				3c		4b

The page heading group presentation rules are as follows:

Upper limit rule.
If a report heading report group has been presented on the page on which the page heading report group is to be presented, then the first line number on which the page heading report group can be presented is one greater than the final LINE-COUNTER setting established by the REPORT HEADING.

Otherwise the first line number on which the page heading report group can be presented is the line number specified by the HEADING phrase of the PAGE clause.
Lower limit rule.
The last line number on which the page heading report group can be presented is the line number that is obtained by subtracting one from the value of integer-3 of the FIRST DETAIL phrase of the PAGE clause.
First print line position rules.
1. The first print line of the page heading report group is presented on the line number specified by the integer of its LINE NUMBER clause.
2. If a report heading report group has been presented on the page on which the page heading report group is to be present, then the sum of the final LINE-COUNTER setting established by the report heading report group and the integer of the first LINE NUMBER clause of the page heading report group defines the line number on which the first print line of the page heading report group is presented.
  Otherwise the sum of the integer of the first LINE NUMBER clause of the page heading report group and the value obtained by subtracting one from the value of integer-2 of the HEADING phrase of the PAGE clause defines the line number on which the first print line of the page heading report group is presented.
3. The page heading report group is not presented.
Final LINE-COUNTER setting rules.
1. The final LINE-COUNTER setting is the line number on which the final print line of the page heading report group was presented.
2. LINE-COUNTER is unaffected by the processing of a nonprintable report group.

¹ A blank entry in column 1 or column 2 indicates that the named clause is totally absent from the report group description entry.

² A blank entry in an applicable rules column indicates the absence of the named rule for the given combination of LINE NUMBER and NEXT GROUP clauses.

³ If the PAGE clause is omitted from the report description entry, then a page heading report group can not be defined. (See the section The TYPE Clause.)

⁴ See the section LINE NUMBER Clause Notation for a description of the abbreviations used in column 1.