Additional Considerations for the PARENT Paragraph

The PARENT paragraph has two additional parameters:

Table 8 PARENT Paragraph Parameters

If the parent of a user cannot be identified from the data on the report line, but can be determined from the user name, a file containing a table relating parent names to user names is supplied.

Each line in the external table is in the format USER=usermask PARENT=parent

In the usermask field, masking characters have the following meaning:

• *—Matches any number of consecutive characters.
• ?—Matches any one character.

Examples

• USER=ABC*D matches users ABC123D, ABC12D, and ABCXD.
• USER=ABC?D only matches user ABCXD from the above set.