REPORT provides a standard layout for the represention of tables: within certain limits, every user can modify this layout for his area using the SET command. The following remarks refer to the predefined standard layout.
The first two lines show the table heading. It contains the column names in the order in which they were specified in the SELECT statement.
The width of a column depends on its ADABAS data type. The display of the name is right-justified in numeric columns; left-justified in text columns. If a name is too long, it is truncated at the corresponding end.
The result table columns are separated from each other by the string ' | '.
The values in the columns are aligned like the headings: numeric values are right-justified; alpha-numeric values are left-justified. NULL values are represented by a '?'. In decimal numbers, thousands are separated by a blank, and the decimal sign is a point.
Example of a result table display:
