Controlling the Behavior of Requests That Use PRINT With Multiple DST Operators

How to:

The handling of DST operators has been improved to support multiple DST operators in the same request, and the ability to use DST with ACROSS.

You can select the PRINTDST command in the Set tool to control the behavior of requests that use PRINT with multiple DST operators to achieve independent DST values.


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Procedure: How to Control the Behavior of Requests That Use PRINT With Multiple DST Operators
  1. From the Procedure Viewer in Developer Studio, click and hold a component connector (yellow diamond), then select Set on the Component Connector toolbox.

    The Set tool opens.

  2. Select PRINTDST from the Available Settings list and click Add.

    or

    Double-click PRINTDST.

    PRINTDST is added to the Used Settings list.

  3. Select a value from the Current Value list to set the PRINTDST command.

    You may select from the following options:

    • NEW. Processes multiple DST operators in a PRINT request as totally independent objects.
    • OLD. Processes multiple DST operators in a PRINT request as nested BY fields, making them dependent on each other. OLD is the default value.

    The following image is an example of the PRINTDST command in the Set tool.

  4. Click OK to save the SET PRINTDST command and close the Set tool.

    The corresponding syntax is:

    SET PRINTDST = {NEW|OLD}

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