CA Datacom/DB Reporting Facility Tutorial

This chapter describes how to use the Reporting Facility, primarily by examining a simple program and the report it generates. Later, you will have the opportunity to test your programming skills by writing a program.

Although not all of the commands, facilities, and functions are discussed in this tutorial section, it can be used as a starting point for learning the Reporting Facility. The descriptions of the commands are not comprehensive, but are simplified to demonstrate the basics of the program. For more detailed information about commands, consult the Command Reference section in this guide.

The data accessed to produce the sample report is stored in CA Datacom/DB, and it is assumed that you have a basic knowledge of CA Datacom/DB. However, many of the concepts used to access the CA Datacom/DB table can be applied to using the Reporting Facility with standard files. Later in this manual, you will be given the opportunity to write a program that accesses a standard file.