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Employee-Record Report Application

The employee-record report application produces a report of employees by department. Sample output is shown below:

Sample Output

FC10001                             FICTIONAL COMPANY, INC.                     DATE      PAGE
                                  EMPLOYEE LISTING BY DEPARTMENT               11/05/99     1

DEPARTMENT ID: 5200    THERMOREGULATION

                 EMP ID  ──NAME--                STATUS   SOC SEC   START DATE   TERM DATE

                 0479    CLOTH        TERRY      ACT     028701666  11/02/79     00/00/00
                 0329    FINN         PHINEAS    ACT     011787878  06/16/79     00/00/00
                 0469    KASPAR       JOE        LOA     036768888  06/05/82     00/00/00
                 4014    SHEPARD      LISA       UNK     000000000  00/00/00     00/00/00
                 0355    TIME         MARK       ACT     034560128  05/05/84     00/00/00
                 0439    WILCO        ROGER      ACT     111000023  11/11/79     00/00/00

                                                           DEPARTMENT 5200 TOTAL EMPLOYEES:  6
DEPARTMENT ID: 3100    INTERNAL SOFTWARE

                 EMP ID  ──NAME--                STATUS   SOC SEC   START DATE   TERM DATE

                 0024    DOUGH        JANE       ACT     022337878  08/08/76     00/00/00
                 0029    GALLWAY      JAMES      ACT     014567777  10/10/81     00/00/00
                 0003    GARFIELD     JENNIFER   ACT     021994516  01/21/77     00/00/00
                 0028    GRANGER      PERCY      ACT     011234545  05/27/83     00/00/00
                 0027    HEAROWITZ    VLADIMIR   ACT     031896154  09/09/89     00/00/00
                 0020    JACOBI       JAMES      ACT     018813465  11/11/89     00/00/00
                 0019    JENSEN       JULIE      ACT     033456718  09/29/82     00/00/00
                 0035    LITERATA     LARRY      ACT     023567831  09/09/80     00/00/00
                 0023    O'HEARN      KATHERINE  ACT     019556712  05/04/78     00/00/00
                 0021    TYRO         RALPH      ACT     019893456  12/12/21     00/00/00

                                                           DEPARTMENT 3100 TOTAL EMPLOYEES:  10

                                                           TOTAL EMPLOYEES ALL DEPARTMENTS:  61

Employee-record Flow Example

The diagram below shows the file access, components, and flow of control for the application.

Files Accessed

This application accesses the following files.

Name

Type

Description

REPFILE1

Output file

Contains the report

ADSLOGA

Log file

Contains informational and error messages produced by the application

Dialogs

The application consists of the following dialogs.

Name

Description

REPTEDIT

Acts as the mainline routine for the application, reading database records and passing control to other dialogs as required; writes department and report total lines, as shown below:

DEPARTMENT 3100 TOTAL EMPLOYEES: 10

 

TOTAL EMPLOYEES ALL DEPARTMENTS: 61

DEPTHDR

Writes department header lines, as shown below:

DEPARTMENT ID: 5200 ...

COLMHDR

Writes detail column header lines, as shown below:

EMP ID  ──NAME--  ...

DLINEOUT

 

Writes detail lines, as shown below:

0479 CLOTH TERRY ...

HDRLINE

Writes page header lines, as shown below:

FICTIONAL COMPANY, INC ...

EMPLOYEE LISTING BY DEPARTMENT ...

Steps

To create the application, you perform the following steps:

  1. Describe the layouts of the records used in the application.
  2. Define the file maps that associate file records with variable storage.
  3. Define the process modules for the application's dialogs.
  4. Define the dialogs.

Note that you do not have to describe the report file in the data dictionary; you can use file entity IDD-REPFILE1, which you already described as part of the archive application.

The steps you perform to define the report application are described below, followed by a discussion of executing the application.