TurboData can be used to read in a COBOL file definition from Turbo Reports. Turbo Reports by Canam Software is a visual report writer with COBOL code generation support.
TurboData can be used to create test data for reports generated by Turbo Reports.
Launch the Turbo Reports application and select the file definition you want to create test data for. Select TurboData from the toolbar or main menu. Make sure that the option to Create new TurboData schema is selected. Enter the TurboData local name and description. Press the TurboData pushbutton, and Turbo Reports will create a text file 'TrtoTD.txt' in the TurboData Databases folder. TurboData will be launched, read the file, and create a new TurboData database schema in the local name you specified. Use this schema to generate positional text files for input to Turbo Reports generated COBOL report writers.
Figure 0.3 Read Turbo Reports File
This dialog is used to read in the text file generated by Turbo Reports. The text file contains all the file definition information required by TurboData for the generation of test data for the COBOL reports.
The interface file must have already been created by the Turbo Reports application in the TurboData databases folder.
Enter a TurboData name. This is a user defined name that TurboData uses to store the details read in from the interface file.
Enter a description. This is optional, and may be edited later.
Press the OK button to read in the file, and store the file definition details in TurboData.
When the file has been read in successfully, the dialog is closed, and control is returned to the TurboData primary window.
