New COBOL programmer needs Report Writer help

[butler]

I need to make a change to an old cobol report that made use of 'Report Writer' the RD looks like this:<br>
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RD REPORT-OUT<br>
CONTROLS FINAL, W-IWR-WARE, W-IWR-ITEM,<br>
PAGE 66 LINES,<br>
FIRST DETAIL 6<br>
LAST DETAIL 63.<br>
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I need to modify the program to print either the report shown, or a new report, sorted by ITEM, then WARE, based on a run-time switch:<br>
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RD REPORT-OUT-2<br>
CONTROLS FINAL, W-IWR-ITEM, W-IWR-WARE,<br>
PAGE 66 LINES,<br>
FIRST DETAIL 6<br>
LAST DETAIL 63.<br>
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My question is, how do I do this without repeating all of 01 and TYPE clauses, etc? Can I point both of these RD's to the same report definition?<br>
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Much Thanks to anyone who can help!

 

[DG]

Since you're sorting this report, try creating "generic" sort keys (in your SD) for ITEM and WARE (e.g. SRT-KEY1, SRT-KEY2). Then, depending on your run-time switch, move the appropriate field to SRT-KEY1 and SRT-KEY2. In that way you can get by with just one RD.<br>
<br>
Example:<br>
<br>
RD REPORT-OUT<br>
CONTROLS FINAL, SRT-KEY1, SRT-KEY2<br>
PAGE 66 LINES,<br>
FIRST DETAIL 6<br>
LAST DETAIL 63

 

[DG]

Since you're sorting this report, try creating "generic" sort keys (in your SD) for ITEM and WARE (e.g. SRT-KEY1, SRT-KEY2). Then, depending on your run-time switch, move the appropriate field to SRT-KEY1 and SRT-KEY2. In that way you can get by with just one RD.<br>
<br>
Example:<br>
<br>
RD REPORT-OUT<br>
CONTROLS FINAL, SRT-KEY1, SRT-KEY2<br>
PAGE 66 LINES,<br>
FIRST DETAIL 6<br>
LAST DETAIL 63