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Rules for Processing Each Data Record (When Adding or Changing)

• If a report definition does not exist, an error message is issued and the data record is skipped.
• The data fields in the report definition for which parameters were specified on the /RPTDEF control statement are set to the values from the data record; the data fields for which no parameters were specified on the /RPTDEF control statement remain unchanged.

  See the following parameters for variations on this rule:

  • DESTID, DEST, GROUP, and NDISTID
  • INST
  • TEXT, TEXTCOL, TEXTLINE, TEXTECOL, TEXTELIN, TEXTOP, TEXTREUS, and TEXTTYPE