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CSV Record Types

Each CSV member in the CAIJSCSV PDS contains three record types: the identification record, the dictionary record, and the data record. The first two types of records contain descriptive information, appear only once, and are found at the beginning of the file. The third type of record, the data record, starts with record number three and continues to the end of the member. Detailed information about each record type is in the following sections.

CA JARS can also produce reports in XML format. The XML data can be used in newer applications that process XML data and can display or analyze it programmatically. The XML process also produces a schema for the XML document. The schema is compliant with the standards initiated by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in 2001. To learn more about the schema standard, go to http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema.

This User Guide assumes you have some knowledge of basic XML concepts. For general information about XML and how to work with it, go to the main W3C website, http://www.w3.org, or the XML.org website at http://www.xml.org.

Note: To use the XML feature, IBM's z/OS XML Toolkit must be installed on the system where CA JARS is running. If Toolkit is not in the system linklist, the library where it resides must be concatenated to STEPLIB in the CA JARS JCL. For more information on the XML Toolkit, go to IBM's website at http://www.ibm.com.