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What You Can Do

You can write your own user modules to facilitate processing CA Culprit reports. Before writing your own module, be sure to check the CA-supplied modules to see if the function you need is already available. The CA-supplied modules are listed in "Introduction" chapter.

Typical Uses for User-written User Modules

Input, procedure, and output modules perform specific processing tasks that have practical applications. Some typical uses are listed below:

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An input module

Decompress a file

Read a file type not supported by CA Culprit

Combine records from different files to form one input buffer

A procedure module

Perform a difficult computation

Incorporate a company-required routine

An output module

Write a file or report in a format not available to CA Culprit

Compress the output