What It Does

CA Culprit is a batch utility that generates reports and tables from conventional and database files. CA Culprit is a batch utility that generates reports from conventional and database files.

Data Input

CA Culprit can extract data from several database and conventional file structures as shown in the following figure. As many as 32 conventional files can be read and processed in one CA Culprit run.

Note: CA Culprit can extract data from and write reports to several database and file structures. CA Culprit is fully integrated with other products, such as CA IDMS/DB, the Integrated Data Dictionary (IDD), and CA-ICMS.

Each run can generate up to 100 reports from the same input data. Reports can be formatted as printed output, stored tables, or written to cards, tape, or disk. Following is an example of a printed CA Culprit report.

REPORT NO. 01 EMPLOYEE SALARY REPORT ◄─────── Title Line ───────► mm/dd/yy PAGE 9 DEPARTMENT THERMOREGULATION EMPLOYEE TITLE NAME ◄────── Header Line ────────► SALARY HUMIDITY CONTROL CLK TERRY CLOTH ──┐ ┌── $38,000.00 │ │ KEEPER OF BALLOONS PHINEAS FINN │ │ $45,000.00 ├──── Detail Lines ───┤ MGR THERMOREGULATION ROGER WILCO │ │ $80,000.00 │ │ WINTERIZER JOE KASPAR │ │ $31,000.00 WINTERIZER MARK TIME ──┘ └── $33,000.00 Subtotal Line ───────► $227,000.00 ┌─► $2,522,500.00 RECORDS WRITTEN FOR REPORT 01— 143 ◄──── Output Grand Total Line ───────┘ Phase Statistics

General CA Culprit concepts, coding considerations, and a description of the CA Culprit processing phases follow.

IBM Language Environment Requirements

Access to the IBM® Language Environment (LE) runtime support is required when accessing CA IDMS databases or dictionaries, and when calling LE programs.

Under z/OS, the LE runtime library (usually CEE.SCEERUN) must be in the STEPLIB concatenation or in the MVS linklist.

Under z/VSE, the LE runtime library (usually PRD2.SCEEBASE) must be in the LIBDEF PHASE search chain, temporary or permanent.