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Model Action Block Use Report

The Model Action Block Use Report lists the calling hierarchy of components in a model. The report displays the Dynamic Link attribute associated with each module, No, Yes, Compatibility, or Default. For each Business System included as part of the report, the default values assigned to the Dynamic Link Defaults for Procedure Steps, Screens Managers, and Action Blocks are displayed. The report has three basic modes of operation, selected by the Object Range report option.

You can select one of the following options from the Object Range List:

• All business systems and load modules

  This option lists every Business System in the model, every Load Module under its Business System, every Procedure Step in each Load Module, and recursively, every Action Block used by the Procedure Step. All Derivation Algorithms in the model are also listed at the end of the report.

• Selected objects

  This option allows you to select Business Systems or Load Modules to include in the report. The selected objects and components used by those objects are listed. If you select a Business System, then all the load modules under the Business System are displayed. If you want to select a specific load module, you can select among Batch Job, Batch Job Step, Online Load Module, Operations Library, Server Manager, Window Load Module, Window Manager, and z/OS library. Note that the Derivation Algorithms do not appear in this report.

• Filter modules by Dynamically Link (z/OS) option

  This report lists Procedure Steps, Screens, Action Blocks, and Derivation Algorithms that have their Dynamic Link (z/OS) property set to the value selected in the filter values field. The selection of the filter value is required for this option.

  The permitted values that can appear in the Dynamic Link (z/OS) options for these components are:

  • YES
  • NO
  • CMP (compatibility)
  • DEF (default to business system defaults)

Each module displayed in report includes:

• Hierarchy nesting level
• Action Block name
• Action Block type:
  • Pstep (Procedure Step)
  • Common (Common Action Block)
  • Derivation (Derivation Algorithm)
  • External (External Action Block)
  • Foreign (Common Action Block owned by a Business System that is different from the Load Module’s Business System)
  • Foreign Ext (External Action Block owned by a Business System that is different from the Load Module’s Business System)
  • Pstep (For) (Procedure Step that is owned by a Business System that is different from the Load Module’s Business System)
• Action Block source member name
• Dynamic link value for Procedure Step/Action Block: Yes, No, Compatibility, Default. For Default, the value defaulted to through the Business System dynamic link default for Procedure Step/Action Block is also displayed. For example Default (No) means the module is set to Default and the owning Business System dynamic link default for Procedure Step/ Action Block is set to No.
• Screen member name for screen (if exists)
• Dynamic link value for screen (if exists): Yes, No, Compatibility, Default. For Default, the value defaulted to through the Business System dynamic link default for Screen Managers is also displayed.
• Owning Business System name

If an action block is called more than once within the same level 1 hierarchy and it has calls to other action blocks, then the action block use expansion is only reported once. The action block name will have an asterisk (*) beside it denoting that it was previously expanded.