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About CA Earl

CA Earl, the CA Easy Access Report Language, provides you with the capability to design and produce customized reports. Easy access to TMC Volume and DSNB record information provides reporting flexibility and allows you to tailor reports to your desired format.

This chapter describes the types of access methods available for retrieving information from the TMC and identifies required CA Earl components. The discussion of date manipulation functions for date fields retrieved from the TMC includes coding examples of date function calls. CA Earl uses data record formats common to both CA 1 and CA TLMS Tape Management, so that access from either system is identical. The CA 1 CA Earl record layout identifies those fields that are unique to CA 1 and those that are unique to CA TLMS Tape Management. Several CA Earl coding examples are supplied, with the output generated.

Additional CA Earl information may be obtained from the CA Earl Reference Guide. A cross reference of supplied CA Earl members can be found in member EARLINDX of the CA 1 Source library.

Note: The support for TMSGRW is continued due to its wide usage. The current functionality of TMSGRW is stabilized while any new functionality is added to the CA Earl or CA Easytrieve interfaces to CA 1.