JPH01275173A - Detection system for incorrectly formatted report beforehand - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To prevent a wasteful report from outputting and to save a sheet by providing an operation desk notifying unit for notifying the stop of the output of the report to an operation desk when a discriminator judges no output of the report and an output stopper for stopping the output. CONSTITUTION:A writing program 6 inputs the image of a report to be output from an input unit 12 from an auxiliary memory 2, and inspects the content of an actual report image by a control code detector 13. A comparator 15 compares the number of physical lines held by a number-of-physical lines receiver 11 with the number of logic lines held by a number-of-logic lines recognition unit 14, and notifies its result to a discriminator 16. The discriminator 16 regards as being erroneous in a format definition if the number of logic lines exceeds the lines of physical lines to judge no output of a report, and notifies it to an operation desk notifying unit 18. The unit 18 notifies a message indicating that a format definition is incorrect to an operation desk 4 to inform it to an operator and to notify that it is not of an object of the output of the report to an output stopper 19. The stopper 19 notifies it to a system output 5, and waits a next output command.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (Industrial Application Field) The present invention provides a method for defining a format for a report showing the execution results of a job in a computer system and outputting it to an output device. In this case, the present invention relates to a method for detecting this before outputting the REVO-1 to the output device.

(Prior Art) Conventionally, there has been a method of providing an easy-to-read report by specifying a desired format from among several predetermined formats and outputting it to an output device for a report indicating the execution results of a job.

In this method, by defining the format, the report includes line feed and line feed control codes in advance, but when outputting this to the output device, first the format information according to the defined format is sent to the output device. If the settings were successful, the report output would start immediately.

(Problem to be Solved by the Invention) In the conventional method described above, even if an incorrect format that is different from the format originally desired for outputting a report is specified, if this format corresponds to some predetermined formats, the format can be changed. Since the information can be set on the output device, there is a problem in that the report is output as is and the expected report cannot be obtained.

(Means for Solving the Problems) In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention provides a method for detecting formatting irregularities in advance for reports indicating job execution results that include control codes for line breaks and page breaks. In a computer system that defines a format and outputs the report to an output device according to the format, a method for detecting a report with an invalid format before outputting it to the output device, the format for obtaining the format name of the report. an acquisition unit, a format setting request unit that requests the output device to set format information according to the format name obtained by the format acquisition unit, and when the format setting request unit requests the format setting,
a physical line number receiving unit that receives the physical number of lines that the output device can print in one page of the report according to this format; a report image capturing unit that captures an image of the report; and a report image capture unit that captures an image of the report. a control code detection unit that detects the line break and page break control codes from the image of the report captured by the capture unit; and a control code detection unit that detects the line break control codes based on the number of line break control codes detected by the control code detection unit. a logical line number recognition unit that recognizes the logical number of lines that can be printed within one page of the report; and a logical number of lines received by the physical line number receiving unit and the logic recognized by the logical line number recognition unit. A comparison section that compares the number of rows with the number of rows determines that the report should be output when the number of logical rows is smaller than the number of physical rows. a determining unit that determines not to output the report if the size is large; a transfer unit that transfers an image of the report to the output device when the determining unit determines to output the report; an operator console notification section that notifies the operator console to stop outputting the report when it is determined that the report will not be output;
The present invention is characterized in that it includes an output aborting unit that stops outputting the report when the determining unit determines not to output the report.

(Example) Hereinafter, an example of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a computer system in which a preliminary detection method is applied to format fraud REVO-1 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In the figure, 1 is a data processing device, 2 is an auxiliary storage device, 3 is an output device, 4 is an operator console, 5 is a system output, 6 is a writing program, 7 is a data conversion section, 8 is an output instruction reception section, 9 is a master of formatting, and 10 is dependent on formatting! IIJ'
i section, 11 is a physical line number receiving section, 12 is a report image input section, 13 is a control code detection section, 14 is a logical line number recognition section, 15 is a comparison section, 16 is a judgment section, 17 is a transfer section, 18
1 indicates the console notification section, and 1 indicates the output stop section.

In FIG. 1, an auxiliary storage device 2 holds an output image of a report indicating job execution results and control information regarding the output. The system output 5 is a control program that manages the entire process related to report output, and the writing program 6 is a program that forms job execution results as a report. The data conversion unit 7 is
The formed report is converted into data that can be output by the output device 3, and formatting is performed.

Next, the operation of this embodiment when an attempt is made to output a report specifying an incorrect format will be described.

When the job is completed, the system output 5 recognizes that a report is requested to be output, calculates the job execution result to be output to the output device 3, and notifies the program 6. The output program 6 receives a report output instruction through the output instruction receiving section 8, obtains the format name specified in the report through the format master section 9 in order to output the accepted report, and uses the format setting request section 10 to obtain the format name specified in the report. The data conversion unit 7 is requested to set format information in accordance with the format name to the output device 3. Upon receiving the request, the data conversion unit 7 sets the format information to the output device 3. At this time,
The data conversion unit 7 converts the output device 'fi' from the set format information.
, 3 determines the physical number of lines that can be printed within one page and notifies it to the physical line number receiving unit 11.

The physical line number receiving unit 11 holds the notified physical line number.

Further, the writing program 6 obtains the image of the report to be outputted from the auxiliary storage device 2 by the report image input unit 12, and inspects the contents of the actual report image by the control code detection unit 13. Control code detection section 13
every time it detects a line feed control code until it detects a page break control code.

The logical line number recognition unit 14 is notified of this. Logical line number recognition unit 14
calculates and stores the logical number of lines that can be printed on one page.

Next, the comparing unit 15 compares the number of physical lines held in the physical line number receiving unit 11 and the number of logical lines held in the logical line number recognition unit 14, and notifies the determination unit 16 of the result. If the number of logical lines falls within the number of physical lines, the zero determination unit 16 determines that the format definition is correct and outputs the report, and notifies the transfer unit 17 to that effect. Transfer section 17
converts the report image of the report into the data converter 7
The data converter 7 converts the transferred report image into a data format to be output to the output device 3 and outputs the converted report image to the output device 3 . Further, if the number of logical lines exceeds the number of physical lines, the determination unit 16 considers that the format definition is incorrect and determines not to output the report, and notifies the operator console notification unit 18 of the change. do. The console notification section 18 is
A message indicating that the format definition is invalid is sent to the console 4 to notify the operator, and the output cancel unit 1
9 is not included in the report output.

The output cancel unit 19 recognizes this as the system output 5.
The next output instruction will be awaited.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the process of determining whether to output a report in this embodiment.

In FIG. 2, processing A is performed by the formatting request section 10 in FIG.
, processing B corresponds to the physical line number receiving section 11 in FIG. 1, processing C corresponds to the report image input section 12 in FIG. 1, and E and F correspond to the control codes in FIG. 1. Detector 13
, processing G corresponds to the logical line number recognition unit 14 in FIG. 1, processing G corresponds to the comparison unit 15 in FIG. 1, processing I corresponds to the transfer unit 17 in FIG. Processing J corresponds to the operation console notification section 18 in FIG. 1, and the processing includes the output canceling section 19 in FIG.
It corresponds to

(Effects of the Invention) As explained above, the present invention checks the validity of a format definition before outputting a report, thereby preventing the output of a report that exceeds the number of lines specified in the format definition. This has the effect of saving paper by eliminating the need to output unnecessary reports.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a computer system to which a formatting report advance detection method according to an embodiment of the present invention is applied, and FIG. 2 shows a process for determining whether to output a report in this embodiment. It is a flowchart. 1... Data processing device, 2... Auxiliary storage device, 3.
...Output device, 4...Operation console, 5...System output, 6...Writing program, 7...Data converter, 8...Output instruction receiving unit, 9...Format master Hand part, 10...Format setting request part, 11...Physical line number receiving part, 12...Report image input part, 13...
Control code detection section, 14... Logical line number recognition section, 15.
... Comparison section, 16... Judgment section, 17... Transfer section, 1
8...Operation console notification section, 19...Output cancellation section.

Claims (1)

[Claims] In a computer system that defines a format for a report showing the execution results of a job that includes control codes for line breaks and page breaks, and outputs the report to an output device according to the format, the format is invalid. A method for detecting a report before outputting it to the output device, the method comprising: a format acquisition unit that obtains the format name of the report; and format information that is set to the output device according to the format name obtained by the format acquisition unit. a formatting request unit that requests the formatting; and a physical number of lines that the output device can print within one page of the report according to this formatting information when the formatting requesting unit requests the formatting. a physical line count receiving section that receives the physical line count; a report image capturing section that captures the image of the report; and detecting the line feed and page break control codes from the image of the report captured by the report image capturing section. a logical line number recognition unit that recognizes a logical number of lines that can be printed within one page of the report based on the number of line feed control codes detected by the control code detection unit; , a comparison section that compares the number of physical rows received by the physical row number receiving section and the number of logical rows recognized by the number of logical rows recognition section; and as a result of the comparison by this comparison section, the number of logical rows is equal to the number of physical rows. a determination unit that determines to output the report when the number of logical lines is smaller than the number of physical lines, and determines not to output the report when the number of logical lines is greater than the number of physical lines; a transfer unit that transfers an image of this report to the output device when the determination is made; and an operation that notifies the operator console that output of the report will be discontinued when the determination unit determines not to output the report. A method for detecting formatted reports in advance, comprising: a console notification section; and an output aborting section that stops outputting the report when the determining section determines not to output the report.