Using and Modifying Copied Code › Introduction

Introduction

Frequently used chapters of CA Culprit code can be stored for use by several reports or users. Use of stored parameters helps to establish standard file definitions, procedures, and reports. For example, you can store INPUT and REC parameters that define a shared input file, type 7 or 8 procedural code that performs an operation needed by several reports, or a set of commonly used extract functions.

Parameters to be inserted are maintained in card-image format and in data dictionaries, partitioned data sets (z/OS), source statement libraries (z/VSE), AllFusion CA-Panvalet libraries, and AllFusion CA-Librarian libraries. Stored code can be copied and modified to meet the requirements of a particular report by using one of the copied code parameters:

• USE
• =COPY
• =MACRO