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*   CE801.T09 DB-EZTest Tech Note                         June 1998 *

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*   KEYWORDS: DB-EZTest MISSING REPORT DATA REPORT RETENTION        *

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*   Problem                                                         *

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*   When using DBEZTest to simulate a rundate, DC Reports may lose  *

*   data when created within a simulated date session.              *

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*   Cause                                                           *

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*   The problem is due to the way IDMS checks the report retention  *

*   date. IDMS only checks the day and month part of the date.      *

*   Therefore, if you were to simulate a date of 01/01/2000, and    *

*   the actual date is 05/05/1998. Then if you created a report     *

*   with a retention date of say 14 days, then IDMS compares        *

*   5th May against 1st Jan and reckons the report has expired, and *

*   immediately deletes it. It takes no account of the year.        *

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*   Solution                                                        *

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*   The only way to prevent report data being lost is to alter      *

*   your SYSGEN and set REPORT RETENTION FOREVER.                   *

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*   This should have little or no impact on sites, as the report    *

*   will be automatically deleted when it has completed printing.   *

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*   As the retention check is internal to IDMS and for testing      *

*   purposes, users will obviously want the report creation date    *

*   to reflect their simulated date environment, then this is the   *

*   only way that this can be accomplished without the possibility  *

*   of losing report data.                                          *

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