Notes

• When you print a form, all parts of the form are printed.
• When print a report, the report is printed according to the form specifications.
• When you print a table, the table is formatted using a default form.

  To print a table with other than the default form, display the table, display the desired form, and then issue the PRINT REPORT command. Refer to Example 2. below.

  However, if the form requires that the rows of data be in sorted order (for example, the form uses breaks), you must first run a query that selects data from the table in sorted order rather than display the table.

• When you print a chart, the form specifications are applied to the data and the chart is formatted by the GDDM Interactive Chart Utility.
• To print to a file or dataset use the QUEUENAME parameter to name a CICS extrapartition transient data queue (QUEUETYPE=TD). The CICS DCT (destination control table) must first have a definition for the data queue that routes the output to a file or dataset.
• When printing a report or chart, if the form contains errors, the form panel on which the first error was found is displayed, and the error is highlighted. To see other errors, you must correct the first error displayed.

  Some errors are not detected until you create a report.

• With a DBCS printer, you can print reports containing DBCS data even if you do not have a terminal that displays DBCS data. Start QMF with the program parameter, DSQSDBCS=YES. Contact your QMF administrator for details on customizing your QMF start procedure.
• If you are using DBCS data and QMF splits the page, printing resumes on the second and subsequent pages of the report at the fourth-byte position from the left side of the page.
• The page number, date, and time can be included in the chart title by specifying &PAGE, &DATE, and &TIME, respectively, on the FORM.PAGE panel.
• A printed report differs from a report displayed on a screen in the following ways:

  Part of report	Displayed Report	Printed Report
  Number of pages	One page that can be scrolled	One or more pages
  Page headings and footings	Appear only once	Appear at the top and bottom of each page
  Detail headings	Before the first detail line at the beginning of a report and on every screen following	Before the first detail line of at the beginning of a report and on every page following
  Fixed column	Remain in place when report is scrolled horizontally	Repeated on the left side of each page