PAGE TRAILER

Defines the printing commands for the tail of all pages of a report.

The PAGE TRAILER control block specifies what information, if any, appears at the bottom of each page of output from the report.

The runtime system executes the statements in the PAGE TRAILER control block before the PAGE HEADER control block when a new page is needed. New pages can be initiated by any of the following conditions:

• PRINT attempts to print on a page that is already full.
• SKIP TO TOP OF PAGE is executed.
• SKIP n LINES specifies more lines than are available on the current page.
• NEED specifies more lines than are available on the current page.

You can use the PAGENO operator in a PRINT statement within a PAGE TRAILER control block to automatically display the page number at the bottom of every page, as in this example:

PAGE TRAILER
   PRINT COLUMN 28, PAGENO USING "page <<<<"

The BOTTOM MARGIN specification (in the OUTPUT section ) affects how close to the bottom of the page the output displays the page trailer.