Re: multiple reports and the process scheduler

[Sharon Brandow <sbrandow@NETCOM.COM>]

Thanks for the information, Nathan.  I did report this problem to
PeopleSoft, because they deliver multiple-report SQRs.  They finally
admitted there is a problem on some platforms and will fix it in
PeopleTools release 8.  The case number is T-RWILLI-DP6LM, in case anyone
else is interested.

I did come up with a work-around - I use the system command to print the
second report to the desired printer at the end of the program.  This
works because only one department runs the report.

On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote:

> On Sat, May 08, 1999 at 05:39:17PM -0700, Sharon Brandow wrote:
>
> > The -F flag is set to pshome/reports.  I want both reports written to the
> > reports directory.  And, I don't understand why the one report is getting
> > named pgmname_01.lis, instead of pgmname.l01.  I've searched the archives
> > but did not find this problem.
>
> As of SQR v4, there is an SQR.INI file setting "Output-File-Mode" which
> can be set to either "short" or "long".  If it's set to "long", you'll
> get filenames in the form pgname_01.lis; "short" gives you the old
> pgname.l01 format.
>
> The advantage of "long" is that all of your files have the "proper"
> extension, so Windows browsers, Web servers, etc. all can correctly
> determine the file type (without having to define mappings for .l01,
> .l02, .l03 through .l99).
>
> (My SQR 4 manual says that "short" is the default, and that this setting
> applies to HTML output.  I'm almost certain that it applies to all file
> extensions [including .lis and .spf, for example], and that the default
> was changed to "long" in some version of SQR 4.x, but I don't have a
> place to test this at the moment.)
>
>                                         Nathan
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