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Defining a Report Containing Control Breaks

Important! Use a test database to practice the procedure in this chapter so that you do not inadvertently change or lose data in your production database

Before you perform the steps in this process:

• You must define distribution identifiers for the President and the Vice President of Sales.

Note: For more information about defining distribution identifiers, see the chapter "Defining Basic Reports."

• CA Deliver must be installed and running with the Primary Selection Menu panel displayed. .

This list is an overview of the steps you follow to define a report that contains control breaks:

• Step 1: Define a Job for U50500-R01

  In this step, you define distribution identifiers for the recipients of the report and define the job in the database.

• Step 2: Specify Report Definition Attributes

  In this step, you specify the report definition attributes, which identify the recipients of a report and specify special instructions that are to be listed on the banner pages of the report.

• Step 3: Specify Control Break Identification Criteria

  In this step, you specify control break identification criteria for the report, which tells the system how to split the output to create the report.

• Step 4: Close Panels and Finish Your Work

  In this step, you submit the job.

  When you submit the job, the system obtains the report output from the application program you specified in the JCL for the job (U50500P in this example—yours will differ) and separates the output into unique reports.

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