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Employee-record Archive Application

The employee-record archive application writes selected employee records and their associated coverage records from an CA IDMS/DB database to an output file. The following diagram shows the file access, components, and flow of control for the application.

The files accessed and the dialogs used by the application are as follows.

Files

Name

Type

Description

INFILE1

Input file

Contains the ids of employee records to be archived

SUSFILE1

Suspense file

Contains records from INFILE1 found in error

ARCFILE

Output file

Contains archived employee records and their associated coverage records

REPFILE1

Output file

Contains a transaction summary report for the application

ADSLOGA

Log file

Contains informational and error messages produced by the application

Dialogs

Name

Description

ARCD1

Reads input records and acts as a mainline routine, passing control to dialogs ARCD2, ARCD3, and ARCD4, as required by the application; writes erroneous input records to the suspense file

ARCD2

Writes an employee record to the archive file, then returns control to ARCD1

ARCD3

Writes the coverage records associated with an archived employee record to the archive file, then returns control to ARCD1

ARCD4

Determines the transaction report lines to be written to the report output file; for each line to be written, passes control to ARCD5; returns control to ARCD1 after all lines for the transaction have been written

ARCD5

Writes a report line to the report output file, then returns control to ARCD4

Steps to create the application

To create the application, you perform the following steps:

  1. Describe the input and output files in the data dictionary.
  2. Describe the layouts of file, map, and work records in the data dictionary.
  3. Define the file maps that associate file records with variable storage.
  4. Define the process modules for the application's dialogs.
  5. Define the dialogs.

These steps are described below, followed by a discussion of executing the application.