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Automatically Generated REC Parameters

For database records, logical records, files defined to the data dictionary, and tables CA Culprit automatically supplies a REC parameter for each input field referenced on another CA Culprit parameter; for example, if an edit parameter references DEPT-ID-0410, CA Culprit provides the REC parameter that defines the field.

REC cards are also automatically generated for SQL defined tables. For information on using CA Culprit with an SQL defined database, see Accessing SQL Defined Tables.

Considerations

The following considerations apply to CA Culprit generated REC parameters:

• Fields defined to the data dictionary can have auto-header literals associated with the data dictionary definition. To define an auto-header literal to the data dictionary, use the Record Element DDDL substatement as shown in the example below.

  Note: For more information, see the CA IDMS IDD DDDL Reference Guide.

  RECORD ELEMENT IS NAME VERSION 788
  LINE IS 000100
  LEVEL NUMBER IS 02
  USAGE IS DISPLAY
  Culprit HEADER
      'EMPLOYEE'
      'NAME'.
  

• For multiply-occurring fields, CA Culprit assigns each field a numeric group id, starting sequentially with 00. If more than 100 groups are generated, CA Culprit assigns lowercase alphabetic group ids, starting with aa. User-supplied group definitions should specify uppercase alphabetic group ids to distinguish them from generated group definitions.
• CA Culprit converts numeric single or double precision floating point input fields into 4-byte alphanumeric fields. The CA Culprit module CULLUS36 (Floating Point Conversion) converts these alphanumeric fields into 16-byte packed signed decimal integers.

The following report illustrates CA Culprit generated REC parameters for a database record that contains multiply-occurring fields; the generated REC parameters appear on the Input Parameter Listing.

 ********
 REC      START SIZE TYPE DP FIELD-NAME                     RECORD-NAME,LEVEL
 ********
  REC     00169  001         GENERATED-GROUP-00               GROUP 00       00080.00010         $$ GENERATED
  REC     00169  001         GENERATED-GROUP-01               GROUP 01       00080.00010         $$ GENERATED
  REC     00039  006         CLAIM-DATE-0405                  DENTAL-CLAIM   $$ GENERATED
  REC     00164  002   1     NUMBER-OF-PROCEDURES-0405        DENTAL-CLAIM   $$ GENERATED
  REC     00045  025         PATIENT-NAME-0405                DENTAL-CLAIM   $$ GENERATED
  REC     00009  004   2     PROCEDURE-CODE-0405              DENTAL-CLAIM   ELMNT 01  $$ GENERATED
  REC     00003  006         SERVICE-DATE-0405                DENTAL-CLAIM   ELMNT 00  $$ GENERATED
 mm/dd/yy                      RUN TIME MESSAGES                  PAGE     1

Note: CA Culprit Generated REC Parameters: For each field referenced on other CA Culprit parameters, CA Culprit supplies the start position of the field in the input buffer, the field length, field name, data type, decimal positions, and database record name. For each field that occurs a multiple number of times, CA Culprit generates a GROUP REC parameter and an ELMNT REC parameter.
In this example, the multiply-occurring group is 80 bytes long and repeats ten times.