ACR/Summary 4.9 Release Notes

ACR/Summary 4.9 enhancements include:

Improve Readability for Cross-Reference Report for Internal Items

The report now displays if the job is used for cycle reference for another job. In addition, ‘(HA)’ is printed along with the reference if it is from History Analysis.

New Extraction Options for Detail Field

New extraction options, First Date, First Value, and First Time, are now available during the definition of a Detail field. This enhancement is for Access Mode 6 and 7.

Allow Printing of Rule Variance in the User Reports

Users will now have the ability to specify Rule Variance in the User Report. A new option, ""Rule Variance"", is available for selection during the Page Header and Detail Line definition. This option is supported for both the enhanced and original formats."

Allow Maximum Number of Records to Process to 9999999

The maximum number of records allowed to process and advance (Relative Records) has been expanded from 99,999 to 9,999,999. This enhancement is for Access Modes 1-4.

This enhancement is applicable to z/OS only.

New Selection Types for Access Mode 6 and 7

To improve the capability of the Select statement, the following selection types are added:

• Low Values
• All Nines
• All Zeros
• Contains
• Hex
• Not Numeric

These new selection types only support ‘Alphanumeric’ format. For selection types ‘Hex’ and ‘Contains’, multiple comparison values can be specified.

The two selection types, ‘Hex’ and ‘Contains’, are not supported in Extraction Program Interface.

List Definitions by Functionality

The new database utility, List Definitions by Function, enables users to generate a report that shows the associated Job IDs (and File IDs if applicable) for the function selected.

Users can generate a report for the following items:

• Job Option
• Item Type
• Input Source
• Output Report
• Translation

Cross Reference Report for Internal and External Translation Tables

Users now have the ability to generate a report that lists the translation tables and the jobs that reference those translation tables.

Rule Variance Format for User Report and Freeform Report

When displaying the rule variance on the User Report and the Freeform Report, rule variance is displayed as a count when the print format is Date/Time/Date and Time. This is how rule variance is currently printed on the Control report.

For User Report, this change is applied to all report formats, report headers, detail line and total line wherever rule variance is applicable.

Improve Readability for Cross-Reference Report for Files

For alternate job, it is printed in primary job / alternate job sequence instead of alternate job / primary job sequence so that the primary job and all of its alternate jobs will be printed together.