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File Detail and Key Reports (DREPORTs 007 and 077)

Contents

The file detail report provides detailed information about all IDD files; the file key report provides similar information. The fields and format of these two reports are the same.

The report below shows sample output for DREPORT 077. The DREPORT and KEY parameters used to create this sample report are:

DREPORT=077
 KEY SA-NAM-018 'TESTFILE'

Sample DREPORT 077:

REPORT NO. 77 DATA DICTIONARY REPORTER REL nn.n mm/dd/yy PAGE 1 DREPORT 077 FILE REPORT ********************************************************************************************************************************* RECORD BLOCK RECORD ---- D A T E ---- FILE NAME SIZE SIZE FORMAT LABELS UPDATED CREATED ********************************************************************************************************************************* TESTFILE VER 1 132 132 F NOT SPECIFIED mm/dd/yy mm/dd/yy PREPARED BY LHN REVISED BY LHN DESCRIPTION TEST FILE FOR DOCUMENTATION PUBLIC ACCESS ALLOWED FOR ALL AUTHORITY USER LHN RESPONSIBLE FOR CREATION AND UPDATE AND DELETION FILE-TYPE PS DEVICE-TYPE 3380 DIVISION DOCUMENT PROGRAM LHNPROG VER 1 I-O FILE RECORD LHN-REC VER 1 FILE SYNONYM TEST-FILE VER 1 RECORD SYNONYM LHN-REC VER 1 FILE SYNONYM LHNFILE VER 1 COMMENT 00000100 THIS IS A DOCUMENTATION TEST FILE DEFINITION 00000100 DELETION DATE

Field Descriptions

The format of DREPORTs 007 and 077 depends on the order in which information was defined to the dictionary. A description of the fields in the sample report follows:

FILE NAME

Identifies the name and version number of the IDD file occurrence.

RECORD SIZE

Identifies the maximum record size for this file occurrence.

BLOCK SIZE

Identifies the size (in bytes) of the record blocks on this file.

RECORD FORMAT

Identifies whether the record format is fixed (F), undefined (U), variable (V), or variable spanned (S).

LABELS

Indicates whether the file labels are NOT SPECIFIED, STANDARD, NON-STANDARD, or OMITTED.

DATE UPDATED/CREATED

Identifies the date the IDD file was last updated and the date the file occurrence was defined to the dictionary.

PREPARED BY/REVISED BY

Identifies the user who defined the IDD file to the dictionary and the user who last updated it.

DESCRIPTION

Identifies text associated with the IDD file occurrence.

FILE-TYPE

Identifies the type of IDD file: PS, IS, CARD, VS, or UM.

VSAM-TYPE

Identifies the type of VSAM file (if VSAM file): KS, ES, or RS.

Class/attribute associations

Identify class/attribute associations that have been defined for the IDD file. In this sample report, the attribute DOCUMENT within class DIVISION is associated with TESTFILE.

USER

Identifies a user who is registered to access the file occurrence and indicates any responsibility code and associated text defined for the user. If no users are registered, the USER literal does not appear; if no responsibility codes are associated with a user, the RESPONSIBLE FOR literal does not appear for that user.

SAME AS

Identifies the file occurrence from which this file occurrence was copied (if copied).

PROGRAM

Identifies a program that uses this file occurrence for input/output.

EXTERNAL NAME

Identifies the ddname or file-id of the file used as input to the program, if defined.

RELATED FILE

Identifies a relationship between this file occurrence and another.

RECORD

Identifies a record that is associated with this file.

FILE SYNONYM

Identifies a file synonym for the file occurrence.

RECORD SYNONYM

Identifies record synonym names associated with the last file or file synonym listed.

COMMENT

Identifies commentary text supplied for this file occurrence through the COMMENTS clause of the DDDL FILE statement.

User-defined comments

Identifies user-defined comments that were defined through the DEFINITION/comment-key clause of the DDDL FILE statement. In this sample report, DELETION DATE is a comment key.

User-defined nests

Identifies user-defined nests that relate this file occurrence to another file occurrence.