PAGE HEADER
Defines the printing commands for the top of all pages of a report.
This control block is executed whenever a new page is added to
the report. The PAGE HEADER
control block specifies
the action that the runtime takes before it begins processing each
page of the report. It can specify what information, if any, appears
at the top of each new page of output from the report.
The TOP MARGIN
specification (in the OUTPUT
section) affects how
many blank lines appear above the output produced by statements in the PAGE HEADER
control block.
You can use the PAGENO
operator in
a PRINT
statement within a
PAGE HEADER
control block to automatically display the current page number at the
top of every page.
The FIRST PAGE HEADER
control block overrides
this control block on the first page of a report.
New group values can appear in the PAGE HEADER
control
block when this control block is executed after a simultaneous end-of-group
and end-of-page situation.
The runtime system delays the processing of the PAGE HEADER
control block until
it encounters the first PRINT
, SKIP
, or NEED
statement in the ON EVERY ROW
, BEFORE GROUP OF
, or AFTER
GROUP OF
control block. This order guarantees that any group columns printed in the
PAGE HEADER
control block have the same values as the columns printed in the
ON EVERY ROW
control block.
FIRST PAGE HEADER
also apply
to PAGE HEADER
.