Help Wanted: Report Generator
May 11, 2018
nomenclature "FZPDCSH" reportname "Daily Cash Report" description "Report of cash received, summarized by cashier within campus" prompt CDATE, "Cashier Date", "Date cashier performed transaction" pageheader left &NOMENCLATURE, center &REPORTNAME, right "Page " &PAGENUM pageheader center "Cashier Date = &CDATE, Campus = &CAMP" pagefooter left &USERID@&DBNAME, right &RUNDATE column camp NOPRINT column cashier_id NOPRINT column cashier_name NOPRINT column session_id heading "SESS" format 9990 column tran_number heading "TRANS NUM" format 999999990 column receipt_number heading "RECEIPT" format 999999990 column tran_date heading "TRANS DATE" format MM/DD/YYYY column amount heading "AMOUNT" format $99,999,990.00 break CAMP skip page breakfooter left "Total Campus &CAMP" column receipt_number count column amount sum break CASHIER_ID skip 1 breakheader left "&CASHIER_ID &CASHIER_NAME" breakfooter left "Total &CASHIER_NAME" column receipt_number count column amount sum reportfooter left "Grand Total" column receipt_number count column amount sum reportfooter "End of Report" query select camp, cashier_id, cashier_name, session_id, tran_number, receipt_number, tran_date, amount from fzrcash where cashier_date = &CDATE order by camp, cashier_name, receipt_number
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@programmingpraxis, if the next problem on this site is to implement this, then perhaps you’ll have some options to choose from :-).
In more seriousness, I don’t know of any existing software for this.
Has anybody used the Gnu Report Generator GURGLE? I note the most recent version dates to 2010.
Several years ago I briefly used iReport. Not sure if it fits your criteria.
GNU Cobol is an open source COBOL compiler for Unix and I believe Windows. The current download, 3.0-rc1, includes the REPORT WRITER
module. The REPORT WRITER module is a standard (optional) part of COBOL and has been around in one form or another since 1968. If you’re looking for something cheap to produce 1960s-style reports in a modern OS, GNU Cobol looks pretty good.