7 22 2 DEF_LINE Comments Warnings

7.22.2 DEF_LINE Comments / Warnings

• When assigning specific line attributes to fields or text in a DEF_LINE command note that the line numbers used are "offsets" from the start of the print line. Thus specifying *L001 against a field does not mean the field will actually print on line 1 of the report. The field will print on line 1 of the "group" of fields that make up the DEF_LINE command.

• If you use an expandable group expression in a DEF_LINE command FIELDS parameter and you change the layout using the report design facility, LANSA will substitute the expression with the actual fields. This is the only way LANSA can assign attributes to the individual fields, regardless of which group they initially came from.