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CA Culprit Parameters Unique to Database Access Runs

All of the CA Culprit parameters introduced earlier in this manual are valid for runs that access a CA IDMS/DB database. Four additional parameters, which are listed in the following table, are valid only for database access runs; they are not appropriate for runs that access conventional file structures. In addition, the INPUT and OUTPUT parameters introduced earlier contain some unique options in a CA IDMS/DB environment.

The parameters in the following table are global parameters; that is, they are available to every report in the CA Culprit run, unlike report-specific parameters which are available only to the report that defines the parameter.

CA Culprit Parameters

Function

DATABASE

Identifies the dictionary that defines the subschema or table to be accessed

PATH

Defines the database navigation route

KEYFILE

Defines the physical characteristics of a file that contains key values with which to access database records directly

KEY

Specifies key values with which to access database records directly

SQL

Introduces an embedded SQL statement to retrieve data from an SQL defined table