Displaying Reports in the Panel Facility

The Panel facility enables you to view reports that are too wide to fit on a typical 80-character terminal screen by dividing the display into a maximum of four panels. Pages are automatically numbered with decimal notation indicating the panel number (for example, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3), so that the results can be easily referenced. When these pages are produced as hardcopy, the page numbers also help you place the panels side by side. This feature is also very useful for reports over the 132-character standard line printer width.

To panel your report, issue

SET PANEL=n

before a report request. n is the number of characters you want displayed in each panel. This number must be in the range of 40 to 130.

For example:

SET PANEL=73
TABLE FILE EMPLOYEE
. 
. 
. 
END

However, if you did not issue the panel command and the request has already been executed, FOCUS automatically prompts you for a panel width:

REPORT WIDTH IS ### IT EXCEEDS TERMINAL PRINT LINE OF 130
TO PROCEED ENTER A PANEL WIDTH (40-130) OR 0 TO END =

At that point, you can either enter a number between 40 and 130, or enter 0 to end the report request.

Note:

• If the SET BYPANEL command is specified, the SET PANEL command is ignored for reports displayed in HotScreen, and the terminal screen can be divided into a maximum of 99 panels.
• The PANEL setting is ignored if StyleSheets are enabled.