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Status Future consideration
Workspace zSecure
Categories zSecure Admin
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 21, 2025

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Add AM.1 option to see number of ACCESS records found

CONVERSON commands in C2PAMMAP allow reduction of ACCESS records by removal of qualifiers that change daily, or more frequently. Reduction of ACCESS records means faster reporting, so customers will use AM reports for more online checks and analyses.

During construction of CONVERSION commands, you want to see which qualifiers, for what HLQ, contain many different DATE or TIME values. CONVERSION commands should have the biggest impact, so seeing the number of ACCESS records for a search with AM.1 is crucial in designing C2PAMMAP commands.

Add an output/run option (5?) to show the number of matching ACCESS records. This should print the value of COUNT(NOPROP,7,"Records",dec$abbr) after every place where TOT_COUNT is shown.

I implemented a set of 40 CONVERSION commands that resulted in a 90% or better data reduction over a month: a normal monthly consolidation for June was 120,669 tracks, with the CONVERSION commands added the result was 11,855 tracks. So 10 times faster reporting. In constructing these commands I must have used AM.1 looking for :2506 (or so) in the Resource value, followed by RESULTS, Edit the CARLa commands, inserted COUNT(NOPROP) etc. maybe 100 times. Having the COUNT value optionally in the summary display would have saved a lot of typing (a reduced the CARLa coding skills needed).

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