Defining the Final Decollation Definition

Because decollation of print stream reports with transformation creates a Normalized report instead of the original report in the CDAM, use the following guidelines when defining the decollation mission:

• Use a DO BACKUP statement to decollate the original report from SPOOL or from DSN to one user with one name. Keep this CDAM for purposes of backup and legal reasons.
• Use an ON TRNDSN step to decollate the CDAM, distribute the report among recipients, and create indexes. Use this report for viewing and migration.

  Note: ON TRNCLASS can also be used to decollate with transformation directly from SPOOL. However, decollation using this method does not save the original report.

  Both ON TRNDSN and ON TRNCLASS decollations should use the CLIQUE parameter with the following syntax:

  CLIQUE=Report_Clique_Name

  For more information on defining a decollation using either the TRNDSN or TRNCLASS parameters, see the discussion of the ON subparameters in ON Statement: Decollating Parameter (decollating mission), and the examples for TRNDSN and TRNCLASS illustrated in that section.

An ON TRNCLASS or ON TRNDSN decollation mission (that is, without GROUP set to COLUMNIZED) performs decollation according to the text version of the report, but also creates a CDAM containing a Normalized report.

A Normalized report is a report created during the decollation mission that invokes transformation. Each page of the Normalized report includes the relevant data and references to all resources required for viewing or printing a specific page.

Use the text report you created in the step Creating a Text Report from the Print Stream Report (Second Temporary Decollation Definition), to define necessary lines and columns for WHEN statements, and DO statements such as DO NAME, DO USER, DO REMARK, DO INDEX.