Window contents

This section describes the fields listed in the Compare Layouts – Copybook window.

The upper part of the window shows two frames containing the file and the selected copybook attributes. Selecting the assigned copybook node on the left-hand side displays a list of compatible copybooks.

Field	Description
Data Store
Machine ID	Identifier of machine that the data store belongs to.
Company	Identifier of company that the data store belongs to.
Name	Name of the data store.
Record format	Record format name.
Record length	Length of the data store record.
Selected Copybook
Machine ID	Identifier of machine that the data store belongs to.
Company	Identifier of company that the data store belongs to.
PDFS	Partitioned data set that the selected copybook belongs to.
Name	Name of the selected copybook.
Copy Length	Length of the selected copybook.
I/O Area Name	Name of the I/O area identified within the copybook.
Prog	I/O area progressive number.
Byte-by-Byte Congruence
Byte Position	Position of the byte in the data store layout.
File Byte	Data type for the byte in the data store layout. Available values: Alphanumeric, Binary, Filler, Low-value, Packed Central, Packed Final Unsigned, Packed Final Signed, Space, Zoned Unsigned, Zoned Signed, and Bit.
Confidence	Hypothesis confidence for the byte in the data store layout.
Copybook byte	The byte type of the selected copybook. Available values: Alphanumeric, Binary, Filler, Low-value, Packed Central, Packed Final Unsigned, Packed Final Signed, Space, Zoned Unsigned, Zoned Signed, and Bit. Green disk icon Full compatibility, the copybook byte is the same as the file byte. Half green, half yellow disk icon Partial compatibility with high reliability. Yellow disk icon Partial compatibility with low reliability. The file bytes always set to spaces and/or the copybook bytes included in filler areas also belong to this category. Red disk icon Total incongruence between the copybook byte and the file byte.
Level of compatibility indicators
Copy Bytes Matching	Percentage of bytes compatible between data store and copybook with respect to the length of the data store layout.
Confidence	Estimate of the level of similarity between the proposed file byte value and the corresponding file byte content considering the file analysis only.
Compatible Copybooks	Displays the list of all the copies with the same level of compatibility with the data store.
All Copies (Filtered)	Displays all the copybooks belonging to the environment selected on the basis of the specified associated filters.
Filter on All Copybooks - General Tab
Machine ID	Allows selection by machine identifier.
Company
Filter on All Copybooks - Copybook Attributes Tab
Name	Allows selection by company name.
Tolerance %	If a value different from 0 (zero) is set, it allows you to select copies from the environment whose length differs from that of the file layout by the set percentage value. By default, the parameter is set to 0. This implies that copies whose length coincides with that of the file are displayed. Value 100 allows you to select all the copybooks belonging to the Machine ID and to the company selected on the General page.