Cross-Reference Report

The Cross-Reference Report is a listing for quickly finding individual record blocks, sets, and indexes in a CA IDMS Schema Mapper data structure diagram. The Cross-Reference Report includes descriptions of records, sets, and indexes. You can control record block and set and index descriptions by using the optional XRECLINE and XSETLINE statements, respectively. The use of XRECLINE and XSETLINE can affect this output significantly.

The Cross-Reference Report references sets and indexes by their unique number assigned by CA IDMS Schema Mapper. The numbers appear in the CA IDMS Schema Mapper data structure diagram within the set connection lines, close to the owners, members, and/or indexes.

The Cross-Reference Report references the locations of record blocks in the data structure diagram by both page identifier and coordinate position. The page identifier is a two-character (alphabetic) identifier that shows on which page (the column and row) the upper left corner of a record block can be found in the data structure diagram. A record block that is referenced in the Cross-Reference Report by the page identifier AB is in the first (or A) column that runs down the length of the diagram and the second (or B) row that runs across the width of the diagram.

The coordinate position is used to find the exact location of a record block in the CA IDMS Schema Mapper data structure diagram. A coordinate position is a combination of two numbers that refer to the position of the upper left corner of each record block in the diagram. The positions are numbered in units of character spaces, with the upper left corner of the diagram being the origin (0,0). The first number tells how many character spaces the record is from the left side of the diagram. The second number tells how many character spaces the record block is from the top of the diagram.