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Element Designator Report (DREPORT 025)

Contents

The Element Designator report lists all attributes within the element designator class and describes all elements associated with each element designator. Element designator is a system-provided class that allows you to classify similar elements for report purposes. Element/element designator relationships are defined through INCLUDE class IS attribute clause of the DDDL ELEMENT statement, where the class is ELEMENT DESIGNATOR.

Sample DREPORT 025:

REPORT NO. 25 DATA DICTIONARY REPORTER REL nn.n mm/dd/yy PAGE 1 DREPORT 025 ELEMENT DESIGNATOR REPORT ********************************************************************************************************************************* DESIGNATOR/DATA ELEMENT NAME VERSION LGTH PICTURE USAGE ELEMENT SYNONYM NAME ********************************************************************************************************************************* DOCUMENTATION LHN-DEPT-NAME VER 1 45 X(45) DISPLAY LHN-DEPT-NAME

Field Descriptions

A description of the fields in the sample report follows:

DESIGNATOR

Identifies the name of an attribute associated with the element designator class.

DATA ELEMENT NAME

Identifies the names and version numbers of data elements associated with this element designator.

LGTH

Identifies the length in bytes of the element.

PICTURE

Identifies the picture clause associated with this data element.

USAGE

Identifies the usage mode for the element.

ELEMENT SYNONYM NAME

Identifies a synonym name associated with the element by the ELEMENT NAME SYNONYM clause of the DDDL ELEMENT or RECORD ELEMENT statements, or by the schema compiler.