PAUSE

Pauses a report displayed to the screen.

Syntax

PAUSE [ "comment" ]
  1. comment is an optional comment to be displayed.

Usage

Output is sent by default to the screen unless the START REPORT statement or the OUTPUT section specifies a destination for report output.

The PAUSE statement can be executed only if the report sends its output to the screen. It has no effect if you include a TO clause in either of these contexts:
  • In the OUTPUT section of the report definition.
  • In the START REPORT statement of the report driver.
Include the PAUSE statement in the PAGE HEADER or PAGE TRAILER block of the report. For example, the following code causes the runtime system to skip a line and pause at the end of each page of report output displayed on the screen:
  PAGE TRAILER
    SKIP 1 LINE
    PAUSE "Press return to continue"