Combining Tasks for Multiple Reports

Reports created from the same data source can often be grouped together to improve processing efficiency. The most common coding strategies are to:

Batch related reports together to allow CA Culprit to read the data file once for all the reports. Code reports in ascending numerical sequence.
Use global work fields to allow all the reports in the run access to work field contents. Calculation results can be shared between reports in this manner.
Use exact positioning for edit parameters wherever possible; for example 01510045.
Keep relative column numbers low (*0002, *0004, *0006) to allow for later insertions and still minimize the number of work areas (buckets) CA Culprit must set up. CA Culprit uses the highest relative column number to allocate storage for some internal tables:
```
    *0002
    *0004    Allocates a table with 6 entries
    *0006

    *0100
    *0200    Allocates a table with 300 entries
    *0300
```