CA Dynam for VSE User Guide

Chapter 9: CA Dynam Reporting Utilities
General Reporting−DYNPRINT
DYNPRINT is the CA Dynam family reporting utility supplied with r5.5 and
above. It lets you report on the CA Dynam Catalog and disk VTOCs. Through
its simple report control language, you can invoke standard reports as well as
compile and execute custom reports.
DYNPRINT is intended to be the basic means of satisfying CA Dynam reporting
needs. It is a replacement for DYNDART, offering substantial performance
improvements and functional advantages. Additionally, it replaces a subset of
certain current CA Dynam reporting utilities.
The DYNPRINT report control language has the following properties:
• Supports a number of standard reports, some of which are similar to or
are replacements for utility reports available in previous releases. These
reports cover both disk and tape data sets and draw on data from the CA
Dynam Catalog and from disk VTOCs.
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Standard reports are supplied both as precompiled executable
programs and as source members.
They may be customized or enhanced to meet individual site
requirements, either on an as-needed or permanent basis.
• Allows predefined or inline reports to be compiled and/or invoked. Data
selection criteria may be specified for each selected report, allowing
anything from a single data instance to all occurrences of the data
available on the system to be reported.
All reports are generated using CA Earl, a powerful high-level nonprocedural
reporting language. A subset of CA Earl has been included with CA CIS. It has
all the features and capabilities of CA Earl, except that no access method
support is provided other than through DYNREAD.
DYNREAD is invoked by the CA Earl report programs and provides access to
information contained in the CA Dynam Catalog and system VTOCs and to
services provided by the System Adapter. DYNREAD tailors data requests
according to the selection criteria defined to DYNPRINT. No knowledge of CA
Earl or DYNREAD is required to execute the standard reports as supplied.
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