1. “You Asked For It, You Got It!” Best New [Backend ] Features of WebFOCUS 7.7.03 Walter Blood Noreen Redden Joel Starkman Information Builders, Inc. August, 2011

2. You Asked For It, You Got It! Active Reports for FOCUS Removal of interactive ?F and ?FF prompting Business Views for FOCUS _FOC_NULL Reformatting BY and ACROSS fields Support WHERE clause in DBA VALUE restriction &DATEfmt with date-time formats ACROSS COLUMNS x AS 'title' OR y AS 'title' Across value format in EXL07 ALIAS=INSTANCE COLLATION in the Master CRINCLUDE=ALL CRJOINTYPE DATASET for HOLD DEFINE FUNCTION automatic inclusion DYNAM DEFAULT Extension to SET DROPBLNKLINE Extension to SET HOLDATTR File qualification for MFD constant FILEDEF for holiday file HHMS Function HOLD FORMAT MAGNIFY IOTYPE in Master MFD Profile phase 2 Multi-parent Masters (MFACT) Multipath as MATCH (MFACT) Preserving leading and trailing blanks in DFIX Retrieve data associated with a prefixed field SET DISTRIBUTE SET ROWTOTFORM Simplify FOCUS cache Subqueries in Master Support C notation wherever fieldnames are supported Support for global variables as index for indexed variables TOC Styling Validating &vars to prevent SQL insertion WHERE fld EQ (FILENAME) DATASET for HOLD on PDS MISSING test support for TX fields Optimizing SUBSTR Unequal size GROUPS/RANGES Fiscal year subroutines LCWORD3 BYTEORDER in Master Extended currency symbol for Thailand and China HOLD FORMAT DB2 and index creation Sort objects in Master Support MFD DBA Restrictions in nested Adapter calls Null value testing in left outer JOIN request Ignore ON phrases for absent fields Increased length of all fields Access restrictions in multi-file structure 1024 segments 128 sort phrases in one request 32 gigabyte XFOCUS databases Longer DEFINE FUNCTION names Add and configure fonts Overflow Excel worksheets Position ACROSS titels on report Multiple DST operators in one report Multiple conditional headings and footings Summary lines above the data Record selection without wildcard characters Absolute value display TITLE and DESC for virtual fields FPRINT field conversion function Extract date component as an integer 64-character Dialogue Manager labels -READFILE to read mfd fields into DM variables

3. You Asked For It, You Got It! WebFOCUS and FOCUS are Like Twins 7.7.03 finally brings together WebFOCUS and FOCUS Virtually identical backend features and functionality New features hit all products and platforms together Minimal difference between internal code paths Focexecs work identically in either product Bugs are fixed once for everyone The Siamese Twins at Garden of the Gods Park, Colorado Springs, Co.

4. You Asked For It, You Got It! MASTER TABLE OUTPUT and Efficiencies Joel Walter Noreen

5. TABLE OUTPUT and Efficiencies You Asked For It, You Got It! MASTER JOEL STARKMAN Director of Operations FOCUS Division, Information Builders Absolute Value format DBA WHERE FILTER in the Master Extended Limits Business Views

6. You Asked For It, You Got It! Absolute Value Format Option FILE = filename SEGMENT = FIELD= VALUE1,, FORMAT = F8.2,$ DEFINE VALUE2/F8.2AM = VALUE1;,$ DEFINE VALUE3/D8.2B = VALUE1;,$ DEFINE VALUE4/D12.2Ac = VALUE1;,$ VALUE1 VALUE2 VALUE3 VALUE4 -1484.27 $1484.27[1,484.27]1484.27 MASTER IF implied REPORT A – absolute value Column totals add original signed values !! A – absolute value

7. You Asked For It, You Got It! WHERE in DBA FILE = SEGMENT = FIELD= END DBA USER=XYZ, RESTRICT=VALUE, VALUE=ITEM NE RADIO FILE = SEGMENT = FIELD= END DBA USER=XYZ, RESTRICT=VALUE_WHERE, VALUE=ITEM NE 'RADIO ';,$ USER=ABC, RESTRICT=VALUE_WHERE, VALUE=ITEM NE 'RADIO' AND BB NE 'AA ' ;,$ MASTER Use WHERE in DBA instead of IF MASTER More complex expressions

8. You Asked For It, You Got It! COMPUTE in MFD FILE = filename SEGMENT = FIELD=FIELD1,, A3,$ FIELD=FIELD2,, A4,$ DEFINE DEFFIELD/A7 = FIELD1 | FIELD2 ;,$ COMPUTE COMPFIELD /D12.2 = IF…THEN…ELSE… ;,$ TABLE FILE filename PRINT FIELD1 FIELD2 DEFFIELD COMPUTE COMPFIELD; END MASTER FOCEXEC Put global Computes into the metadata for general availability No operator, no expression, add semicolon Any format Any expression It was actually in Release 7.6 !

9. You Asked For It, You Got It! FILTER in MFD FILE = filename SEGMENT = FIELD=FIELD1,, A3,$ FIELD=FIELD2,, A4,$ DEFINE DEFFIELD/A7 = FIELD1 | FIELD2 ;,$ FILTER FILTFIELD = FIELD1 NE FIELD2;,$ TABLE FILE filename PRINT FIELD1 FIELD2 DEFFIELD WHERE FILTFIELD END MASTER FOCEXEC Put your global filters into the metadata for general availability * No operator, no expression Filter format is always I1 * Works independently of FILTER FILE syntax Expression must resolve to 0 or 1 (false or true)

10. A VIEW into the original file – no new data, no separate extraction  Reflect the business instead of physical field arrangement  Limit the fields accessible in the main file, without DBA  Have as many different Business Views as required; Direct via USE  BV recognized only for extract (TABLE[F], GRAPH, MATCH, MORE)  JOIN a Business View to other files Original MFD Business View MFD FILE=ORIG, SUFFIX=any FILE=anyname, CRFILE = ORIG FOLDER= You Asked For It, You Got It! Business “View” of a Database

11. FILE=ORIG, SUFFIX=FOC SEGNAME=SEG1, … FIELD=SOCSECNO, … FIELD=NAME, … FIELD=SALARY, … SEGNAME=SEG2, PARENT=SEG1 FIELD=COMPANY, … FILE=ORIG, SUFFIX=FOC SEGNAME=SEG1, … FIELD=SOCSECNO, … FIELD=NAME, … FIELD=SALARY, … SEGNAME=SEG2, PARENT=SEG1 FIELD=COMPANY, … FILE=BUSVIEW, … SEGNAME=SEG1, CRFILE=ORIG, CRINCLUDE=ALL, $ FOLDER=FOLDER1,$ FIELD=FULLNAME,, ALIAS=NAME,$ FIELD=SSN,, ALIAS=SOCSECNO,$ FIELD=COMPANY,,TITLE=‘CO NAME’,$ FILE=BUSVIEW, … SEGNAME=SEG1, CRFILE=ORIG, CRINCLUDE=ALL, $ FOLDER=FOLDER1,$ FIELD=FULLNAME,, ALIAS=NAME,$ FIELD=SSN,, ALIAS=SOCSECNO,$ FIELD=COMPANY,,TITLE=‘CO NAME’,$ Rename or rearrange fields without touching original file Each Business View field relates (maps) to an original field TABLE with BV field names translates to original names Attributes and relationships are taken from the original field New DEFINEs permitted in Business View master SET FOCTRANSFORM = ON You Asked For It, You Got It! Business “View” of a Database this Business View omits SALARY

12. You Asked For It, You Got It! Extended Limits 256K total length of all fields in a request 64 character Define Function name 32 gigabyte XFOCUS partition 128 BY/ACROSS sort phrases 1022 JOIN segments

13. You Asked For It, You Got It! TABLE OUTPUT and Efficiencies MASTER Across Print Hide Null Across Heading When Subtotal Above NOREEN REDDEN FocWizard, Core Product Specialist Advanced Technical Services Information Builders

14. TABLE FILE EMPDATA PRINT 'EMPDATA.EMPDATA.SALARY' BY 'EMPDATA.EMPDATA.MAJ' NOPRINT BY 'EMPDATA.EMPDATA.LCAREA' AS 'Area' ACROSS 'EMPDATA.EMPDATA.LCDEPT' AS 'Dept:‘ WHERE LCDEPT EQ 'Admin Services' OR 'Consulting' OR 'Accounting' OR 'Marketing' ON EMPDATA.EMPDATA.MAJ SUBTOTAL AS '' ON EMPDATA.EMPDATA.MAJ PAGE-BREAK HEADING "Compensation Report“ … You Asked For It, You Got It! ACROSSPRT and HIDENULLACRS One column for each value One line per record retrieved

15. COMPENSATION REPORT DEPT AccountingAdmin Services AREA Central.....$25,400.00.............. North Eastern.......... PAGE 1 You Asked For It, You Got It! ACROSSPRT and HIDENULLACRS One column for each ACROSS value No values in Accounting column

16. SET ACROSSPRT = COMPRESS  Eliminates MISSING cells  Moves up non-missing values within BY  Default is NORMAL SET HIDENULLACRS = ON  Null ACROSS columns are removed when no value exists for that ACROSS column within the BY group  BY group must specify PAGE-BREAK  Higher “BY” SUBTOTAL may force column display  Ignored with ACROSS FIELD COLUMNS value …  Default is OFF You Asked For It, You Got It! ACROSSPRT and HIDENULLACRS

17. COMPENSATION REPORT DEPT: Admin ServicesConsultingMarketing AREA Central$25,400.00.$62,500.00 North Eastern..$55,500.00..$52,000.00..$32,300.00 South Eastern.$49,500.00$62,500.00.$35,900.00$50,500.00 Western$30,800.00$40,900.00$43,400.00..$58,800.00 Branch Admin$56,200.00$126,300.00$417,500.00 PAGE 1 You Asked For It, You Got It! ACROSSPRT and HIDENULLACRS SET ACROSSPRT=COMPRESS Empty rows are removed SET HIDENULLACRS=ON Accounting column is suppressed Columns may change per pagebreak

18. COMPENSATION REPORT DEPT: AccountingMarketing AREA Corporate$83,000.00$55,500.00 $32,400.00$62,500.00 $79,000.00$35,200.00 $62,500.00. $26,400.00. Total Corp$283,300.00$153,200.00 PAGE 2 You Asked For It, You Got It! ACROSSPRT and HIDENULLACRS SET HIDENULLACRS=ON Accounting column returns on this page

19. SET SUMMARYLINES = EXPLICIT SET SUBTOTALS = ABOVE TABLE FILE EMPDATA PRINT PIN SALARY AS 'Pay' BY MAJ NOPRINT PAGE-BREAK REPAGE SUBTOTAL BY AREA NOPRINT PAGE-BREAK ON AREA SUBTOTAL AS 'Total Area' WHEN MAJ NE 'Corporate' BY DEPT AS 'Department' You Asked For It, You Got It! Subtotals Above the Line Code continues…

20. HEADING CENTER "&DATEMTRDYY Compensation Report " HEADING "Corporate Division " WHEN MAJ EQ 'Corporate'; HEADING "<MAJ " "<AREA " WHEN MAJ NE 'Corporate' AND TABPAGENO EQ 1; HEADING "<MAJ (Continued) " "<AREA " WHEN MAJ NE 'Corporate’ AND TABPAGENO GT 1 ; END You Asked For It, You Got It! Headings WHEN This heading always appears

21. Compensation Report Branch Admin Central DepartmentPINPay Total Branch Admin$1,592,700.00 Total Area Central$493,700.00 ADMIN SERVICES000000180$25,400.00 MARKETING000000040$62,500.00 PERSONNEL000000240$33,300.00 PERSONNEL000000250$25,000.00 PERSONNEL000000390$45,000.00 PROGRMING & DVLPMT000000260$49,500.00 PROGRMING & DVLPMT000000290$40,900.00 SALES000000050$54,100.00 SALES000000200$115,000.00 SALES000000360$43,000.00 Page 1 of 4 You Asked For It, You Got It! Subtotals Above and Headings WHEN SET SUBTOTALS = ABOVE Subtotals moved above detail lines HEADING WHEN 2 headings selected

22. Compensation Report Branch Admin (Continued) North Eastern DepartmentPINPay Total Area North Eastern$304,200.00 CUSTOMER SUPPORT000000110$19,300.00 CUSTOMER SUPPORT000000140$62,500.00 MARKETING000000060$55,500.00 MARKETING000000310$52,000.00 MARKETING000000410$32,300.00 SALES000000190$39,000.00 SALES000000210$43,600.00 Page 2 of 4 You Asked For It, You Got It! Subtotals Above and Headings WHEN HEADING WHEN 2 different headings selected (due to page 2) Subtotal above detail

23. Compensation Report Corporate Division DepartmentPINPay Total Corporate$436,500.00 ACCOUNTING000000070$83,000.00 ACCOUNTING000000100$32,400.00 ACCOUNTING000000300$79,000.00 ACCOUNTING000000370$62,500.00 ACCOUNTING000000400$26,400.00 MARKETING000000010$55,500.00 MARKETING000000130$62,500.00 MARKETING000000320$35,200.00 Page 1 of 1 You Asked For It, You Got It! Subtotals Above and Headings WHEN HEADING WHEN just Corporate heading selected Subtotal above detail

24. TABLE You Asked For It, You Got It! OUTPUT and Efficiencies MASTER Active Reports Output to Powerpoint SQL Efficiencies Character Collation MFACT – Multipath Handling WALTER BLOOD Technical Director of Product Management FOCUS Division, Information Builders

25. You Asked For It, You Got It! Output and Efficiencies Active Reports for FOCUS  Provide enduser the same ability to manipulate report  Limited to HTML reports  Complete report including javascript created in FOCUS TABLE FILE filename SUM …. … ON TABLE HOLD AS ABC FORMAT AHTML END

26. You Asked For It, You Got It! Active Reports for FOCUS COUNTRYCARMODELRETAIL_COSTDEALER_COSTSALES ENGLANDJAGUARV12XKE AUTO8,8787,4270 *TOTAL MODEL V12XKE AUTO8,8787,4270 XJ12L AUTO13,49111,19412000 *TOTAL MODEL XJ12L AUTO13,49111,19412000 *TOTAL CAR JAGUAR22,36918,62112000 JENSENINTERCEPTOR III17,85014,9400 *TOTAL MODEL INTERCEPTOR III17,85014,9400 *TOTAL CAR JENSEN17,85014,9400 TRIUMPHTR75,1004,2920 *TOTAL MODEL TR75,1004,2920 *TOTAL CAR TRIUMPH5,1004,2920 *TOTAL COUNTRY ENGLAND45,31937,85312000 ON TABLE HOLD FORMAT HTML

27. You Asked For It, You Got It! Active Reports for FOCUS ON TABLE HOLD FORMAT AHTML

28. You Asked For It, You Got It! Active Reports for FOCUS Additional Stylesheet Controls allow you to –  Apply calculations to columns and control display location  Control data display by hiding or freezing columns  Control the user menu display  Limit the number of rows per page  Add graphic visualization of numeric data  Customize colors for most of the report components  Control the Report Menu options available to the user

29. TABLE FILE CAR HEADING CENTER "CAR SALES - CURRENT STATISTICS" "CREATED ON &DATEMTRDYY" "FOR COUNTRY <COUNTRY" " SUM RCOST DCOST SALES BY COUNTRY PAGE-BREAK NOPRINT BY CAR UNDER-LINE NOPRINT ON CAR SUBHEAD "Current Sales for <CAR " " BY MODEL SUB-TOTAL MULTILINES ON TABLE HOLD AS PPT4 FORMAT PPT ON TABLE SET STYLE * You Asked For It, You Got It! Output to Powerpoint Instant Presentations HOLD FORMAT PPT

30. You Asked For It, You Got It! Output to Powerpoint WebFOCUS Graphics ! WebFOCUS Reports Dashboard, Graphics Excel, HTML, PDF Visual Discovery

31. More Optimization to speed your requests!  DEFINE FUNCTION – optimized where possible  Boolean expressions – optimized as SQL CASE statements  SQL. – passed directly to the relational engine  DEFINE and IFTHENELSE – optimized as SQL CASE or SQL COUNT statements  WebFOCUS sorting optimized to ORDER BY expression You Asked For It, You Got It! SQL Efficiencies

32. Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 32 When does DIGITAL = digital?  In 7.7 – with SET COLLATION !  SET COLLATION = {BINARY|SRV_CI|SRV_CS|CODEPAGE}  Case Insensitive -- all WHERE tests and sorts ignore the case of the elements being compared  Affects sorting, WHERE conditions, Comparison in Calculations, StyleSheets  **** Server-only Setting **** You Asked For It, You Got It! SET COLLATION

33. Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 33 DEFINE FILE CENTINV FLAG/A1=IF CENTINV.INVINFO.PRODNAME CONTAINS 'ZT' THEN '$' ELSE 'Y'; END SET EQTEST = &EQTEST TABLE FILE CENTINV PRINT 'CENTINV.INVINFO.FLAG' 'CENTINV.INVINFO.PRICE' BY 'CENTINV.INVINFO.PRODNAME' HEADING " Setting of EQTEST is &EQTEST “ “ COLLATION is set to SRV_CI “ " Filter: WHERE CENTINV.INVINFO.FLAG EQ '$'; “ " AND PRODTYPE EQ 'DIGITAL'; " FOOTING "" WHERE ( CENTINV.INVINFO.FLAG EQ '$' ) AND ( CENTINV.INVINFO.PRODTYPE EQ 'Digital' ); … You Asked For It, You Got It! Collation

34. Setting of EQTEST is EXACT COLLATION is set to SRV_CI Filter: WHERE CENTINV.INVINFO.FLAG EQ '$' AND PRODUCT CONTAINS 'DIGITAL'; Product Name: FLAG Price: ZT Digital PDA – Commercial $ 499.00 Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 34 You Asked For It, You Got It! SET COLLATION

35.  Sort within request must be consistent – all sort fields within path of all verb objects  Multiple parents requires change to this requirement  SET FOCTRANSFORM = MFACT supports requests where sorts are applicable to only some of the verb objects  Request is decomposed to MATCH to sort the appropriate fields, followed by TABLE to format and display the results You Asked For It, You Got It! MFACT for Multi-Path

36. EMPINFO SALINFOPAYINFO TABLE FILE EMPLOYEE SUM SALARY GROSS BY EID BY LAST_NAME BY HIGHEST DAT_INC BY PAY_DATE END BY EID BY LAST_NAME BY PAY_DATE BY DAT_INC

37. You Asked For It, You Got It! MFACT for Multi-Path PAGE 1 EMP_ID LAST_NAME DAT_INC PAY_DATE SALARY GROSS ------ --------- ------- -------- ------ ----- 071382660 STEVENS 82/01/01 81/12/31 $11,000.00 $833.33 81/01/01 81/11/30 $10,000.00 $833.33. 82/01/29. $916.67 82/02/26. $916.67 82/03/31. $916.67 82/04/30. $916.67 82/05/28. $916.67 82/06/30. $916.67 82/07/30. $916.67 82/08/31. $916.67 112847612 SMITH 82/01/01 82/01/29 $13,200.00 $1,100.00. 82/02/26. $1,100.00 82/03/31. $1,100.00 82/04/30. $1,100.00 82/05/28. $1,100.00 82/06/30. $1,100.00 82/07/30. $1,100.00