ACR/Summary 4.8 Release Notes

ACR/Summary 4.8 enhancements include:

Support Advanced Features for History Item

Three advanced features: Variable Cycle, Cycle Accumulation, and Equal Cycle Comparison are now supported.

This enhancement is applicable to ACR/Summary for IBM i only.

Allow Comments to Improve Readability of Definitions

To improve the readability of the definition editor, comments are allowed for access modes 6 and 7 if the input source is not a DB2® table. In the definition editor (e.g. Extract Window and Expert File Editor in MVS™), user can enter comments for the following field types:

• Selection field
• Reformat field
• Detail field

A maximum of 195 characters are allowed for the comment field. When the file definitions are displayed (View/Definition in MVS), the comments are displayed along with the definition. Line commands (e.g. D, S, C, and M) are not allowed on the comment line.

Allow Mixed Format Translation for Internal Translation Table

In the previous releases, the Internal Translation Table supported only ‘text- to-text’ and ‘numeric-to-numeric’ translations. In this release, the Internal Translation Table has been enhanced to support ‘numeric-to-text’ and ‘text-to-numeric’ translations.

If the user wants to convert a text to a date, and output the translated value with Print Format Date, the translated value should be the numeric equivalent of a date in date count.

If the user wants to convert a text to a time and output the translated value with Print Format Time or Date &Time, the translated value should be the numeric equivalent of a time in centisecond.

In the translation table, for a numeric value, the number is prefixed with a ‘+’ or ‘-‘sign, and it can be 30 bytes that includes up to 9 decimal places. For a text value, it can be up to 80 bytes.

Allow Time Conversion Utility access from Calculated Item and Standard Rule

A new “TimeCsec” button is added to Calculated Item/Formula Dialog. A new “TimeCsec” button is added to the Standard Rule/Comparison Dialog.

The existing time conversion utility has two available options:

• Option 1 – Convert days/time to centiseconds

• Option 2 – Convert centiseconds to days/time

This enhancement is applicable to Windows GUI only.

Debug Indicator in JCL

A new parameter DEBUG is added to the JCL parms for the File Interface Balancing job (SUM2000) and the Reconciliation job (DET2000). For Windows GUI, the optional debug indicators may be added as runtime overrides.

For ACR/Summary, overall 3 debug indicators can be passed through the DEBUG parameter. The first debug indicator is for the XML writer. The second debug indicator is for the Infogix Visibility API (sending start-of-job message, end-of-job message and report XML messages). The third debug indicator is for the Infogix Assure History API (Infogix Assure History ACR/Summary history retrieval).

For ACR/Detail, overall 2 debug indicators can be passed through the DEBUG parameter. The first debug indicator is for the XML writer. The second debug indicator is for the Infogix Visibility API (sending start-of-job message, end-of-job message and report XML messages).

Batch Utility – Create Comma Delimited Text File

In the previous releases, the ‘Create Comma Delimited Text File’ utility was not supported in IBM i platform. This enhancement is to add the ‘Create Comma Delimited Text File’ utility in IBM i.

This enhancement is applicable to IBM i only.

Display Extraction Variable Name in Extract Window/View/Definition

In the Extract window, the extraction variable name is displayed instead of the extraction variable number. If there is enough space, the first 18 characters of the extraction variable name are displayed. Else the first 12 characters are displayed. If the extraction variable name is missing, extraction variable number is displayed in ‘EXT VAR nnn’ format.

This enhancement is applicable to both ACR/Summary and ACR/Detail for z/OS®, and ACR/Summary for IBM i.

Standardize the Display Format of Extraction Variable in Expert File Editor/View/Definition

In Expert File Editor, extraction variable number continues to display. In this enhancement, Expert File Editor is modified to standardize the display of extraction variable number in ‘EXT VAR nnn’ format.

This enhancement is applicable to both ACR/Summary and ACR/Detail for z/OS only.

Management Report – To Include Jobs Having No Balancing Rules

To pick up the jobs that do not have balancing rules, leave the return code from value blank. All platforms except z/OS already allow this feature.

This enhancement is applicable to both ACR/Summary and ACR/Detail for z/OS only.

Ability to Select from the List of Calculated Items

In the Internal Item and Extended Internal Item screens, user now has the ability to select from a list while assigning a calculated item.

This enhancement is applicable to both ACR/Summary and ACR/Detail for IBM i only.