Product Description:
Marketing Information: COBOL Report Writer is COBOL"s own built-in non-procedural facility for the production of printed output. It enables you to define and produce all the listings, reports, and displayed summaries that would normally be required from a COBOL application, but in far less time. It allows many more printed outputs, which might have been produced previously using stand-alone non-COBOL report generators, to be done in COBOL, because it reduces greatly the time and effort needed to code and test a COBOL program with printed output.
Product Information
Software Sub Type: Report ManagementSoftware Name: VisualAge COBOL Report Writer v.2.0 - Complete ProductFeatures & Benefits: Improves programmer productivity in all aspects of printed output in COBOL by encouraging both experienced users and newcomers to make more use of COBOL"s report writer feature. Helps users who have had experience with a version of COBOL report writer that was an integral part of the compiler and want to continue to use the same facilities. Features a standard built-in feature of COBOL that prints lines, pages, or sophisticated layouts anywhere you want within a COBOL program. Saves time in coding a print layout because you define it entirely in the Data Division. Requires few Procedure Division statements as they print whole blocks of lines at once, moving and editing data automatically, as well performing such tasks as page headings and footings, totaling, displaying dates and organizing tables. The report writer features are implemented in this product by means of a precompiler, rather than within the compiler itself. The compiler processes the intermediate source which the precompiler automatically passes to it. The precompiler phase is made as far as possible transparent to programmers, so that their attention is not distracted from the ori | 
