Suffixed Data Elements

Restriction: This topic applies only when the AppMaster Builder AddPack has been installed, and applies only to Windows platforms.

The iterative expression syntax for numerically suffixed data elements is:

dataitem-#startnumber[/endnumber[/increment]]

Where the parameters are:

#	The pound sign (#) indicates the starting number of an iteration.
`startnumber`	Starting number of the iteration. Leading zeros in `startnumber` are generated in the SUM or SOURCE statements.
/	The first slash separating numeric descriptors of an iteration translates to THRU, the second slash to BY.
`endnumber`	Top limit of the increment range, or bottom limit if the increment is negative.
`increment`	The `increment` is the number by which the iteration is incremented; default is 1.

For example:

SOURCE MONTH-#1/6 BLANK WHEN ZERO

Generates an iteration of six SOURCE statements, suffixed numerically, 1 through 6, for example, MONTH-1 through MONTH-6. If you specify only one number, the iteration assumes the starting number to be 1. For example, SOURCE MONTH-#6 is equivalent to SOURCE MONTH-#1/6.

Without the iterative expression, you would code the previous statement, SOURCE MONTH-#1/6 BLANK WHEN ZERO, as follows:

SOURCE MONTH-1 BLANK WHEN ZERO
SOURCE MONTH-2 BLANK WHEN ZERO
SOURCE MONTH-3 BLANK WHEN ZERO
SOURCE MONTH-4 BLANK WHEN ZERO
SOURCE MONTH-5 BLANK WHEN ZERO
SOURCE MONTH-6 BLANK WHEN ZERO

For example, the following four SUM statements:

SUM MONTH-9-DATA
SUM MONTH-10-DATA
SUM MONTH-11-DATA
SUM MONTH-12-DATA

Can instead be coded as:

SUM MONTH-#9/12-DATA

This next example increments an iteration of SOURCE statements by 2 instead of the default 1.

SOURCE ELEMENT-#6/12/2

Which generates:

SOURCE ELEMENT-6
SOURCE ELEMENT-8
SOURCE ELEMENT-10
SOURCE ELEMENT-12

The PIC clause for each SUM or SOURCE statement generated by the iterative expression is taken from the mock-up. AMB matches the mock-up and detail line data item descriptions as the increment statements generate.