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What You Will Learn [ HP ALLBASE/BRW Tutorial ] MPE/iX 5.0 Documentation


HP ALLBASE/BRW Tutorial

What You Will Learn 

Exercise             Description                                                                                                     

Adding and           10 minutes 
Describing the 3rd
Report

Defining the Data    How to use many source tables in a table, and how to
Access               use more than one relation in a table.  Introduction
                     to keyed access and BRW's access sequence.  How to
                     specify keyed access and access sequence on the Tune
                     Access screen.  60 minutes 

Understanding Keyed  How to use keyed access.  15 minutes 
Access

Defining the         How to define parameters, and the types of parameter
Selection Sets       you can define.  The operator SATISFIES. How to
                     define selection sets.  Selection conditions.  40 
                     minutes 

Defining Sorts and   How to use the parameters and the standard item
Breaks               SELECTION-SET in a condition.  20 minutes 

Defining Linesets    How to define a report heading.  How to use the
                     standard items USER, TIME, REPORT-DESCRIPT, and
                     REQUEST-DATAn.  How to print single-value parameters
                     in a report.  How to print parameters and their
                     run-time values.  How to alter edit masks and
                     specify prefixes for an item.  How edit masks affect
                     the length of an item.  40 minutes 

Reviewing the        How to see, online, how your report will look when
Layout               it is printed.  5 minutes 

Compiling the        How to compile a report with various selection sets.
Report               10 minutes 

Requesting the       How to enter values for parameters.  The use of
Report               required parameters.  10 minutes 

Report Performance   How to read the compile listing and the execution
                     statistics.  How BRW accesses tables.  Access
                     blocks.  The use of keyed access.  How to improve
                     report performance.  30 Minutes 

Total Time:          4 hours 



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