How can you create a report that requires extensive calculations and formatting? Is there a way to produce multiple reports in one pass of the data? With this course, you'll learn how to write reports that you never thought possible. You'll also learn about methodologies to ensure the accuracy of your reports.

• Employ a wide variety of user-written subroutines that simplify complex reporting
• Create and use dummy files to maximize reporting efficiency
• Employ testing methodologies to reduce development time
• Print the same record multiple times, based on specific criteria
• Eliminate blank fields from row-oriented reports
• Find the median value and the average value
• Randomly select data for testing purposes
• Convert upper-case field values to mixed case
• Put upper and lower ranking values in the same report with one data pass

Developers of FOCUS and WebFOCUS who need to solve complicated reporting problems.

• Course 126, Intermediate Reporting and at least three months of extensive experience creating reports.

• Course 402, Reporting Concepts for Relational Databases