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Element Description Report (DREPORT 024)

Contents

The Element Description report lists element descriptions and all elements associated with each description. This report sorts elements by description. Element description text is defined to the dictionary through the ELEMENT DESCRIPTION IS clause of the DDDL ELEMENT statement.

Sample DREPORT 024:

REPORT NO. 24 DATA DICTIONARY REPORTER REL nn.n mm/dd/yy PAGE 1 ELEMENT DESCRIPTION REPORT ********************************************************************************************************************************* DESCRIPTION/DATA ELEMENT NAME VERSION LGTH PICTURE USAGE ELEMENT SYNONYM NAME ********************************************************************************************************************************* CALCULATED BONUS WK-BONUS-AMOUNT VER 1 9 9(7)V99 DISPLAY WK-BONUS-AMOUNT CALCULATED TIME EMPLOYED WK-EMP-LENGTH VER 1 GROUP WK-EMP-LENGTH LHN-ELEM VER 1 GROUP EMPID EMPLOYEE ID WITHIN EMPLOYEE RECORD LHN-ELEM VER 1 GROUP LHN-ELEM MONTHS EMPLOYED WK-EMP-MONTH VER 1 2 99 DISPLAY WK-EMP-MONTH MONTHS IN THE JOB WK-POS-MONTH VER 1 2 99 DISPLAY WK-POS-MONTH START DATE DAY WK-START-DAY VER 1 2 99 COMP-3 WK-START-DAY START DATE MONTH WK-START-MONTH VER 1 2 99 COMP-3 WK-START-MONTH START DATE YEAR WK-START-YEAR VER 1 2 99 COMP-3 WK-START-YEAR SYSTEM DATE DAY WK-SYSTEM-DAY VER 1 2 99 COMP-3 WK-SYSTEM-DAY SYSTEM DATE MONTH WK-SYSTEM-MONTH VER 1 2 99 COMP-3 WK-SYSTEM-MONTH SYSTEM DATE YEAR WK-SYSTEM-YEAR VER 1 2 99 DISPLAY WK-SYSTEM-YEAR

Field Descriptions

A description of the fields in the sample report follows:

DESCRIPTION/DATA ELEMENT NAME

Identifies an element description and all elements with that description.

VERSION

Identifies the version number of the element.

LGTH

Identifies the length in bytes of this data element.

PICTURE

Identifies the picture clause associated with this data element.

USAGE

Identifies the usage mode of the listed element.

ELEMENT SYNONYM NAME

Identifies the element synonym name associated with the element.