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This report contains a brief description of the headings and abbreviations used in the Scan of HISAM Database report, the Scan of Index Database report, and the Validation of a Pointer to a Target at SCAN (HDAM/HIDAM) report.

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Figure 1. VALIDPRT: Legend for Scan and Validation report

IMS HIGH PERFORMANCE POINTER CHECKER FOR z/OS                "LEGEND FOR SCAN / VALIDATION REPORT"                       PAGE:     1
5655-U09                                                   DATE: 07/06/2021  TIME: 15.50.57                         FABPMAIN - V3.R1


TP ..... RECORD TYPE (T1, T2, ETC.)

  T0 ..... RECORD FOR EACH FREE SPACE RANGE
  T1 ..... SEGMENT HAVING VALID SEGMENT CODE
  T2 ..... SLACK BYTES MORE THAN SPECIFIED T2LEN (UNKNOWN DATA)
  T3 ..... POINTER RECORD TO BE VALIDATED IN CHECK PROCESS
  T4 ..... TARGET POINTER HAS UNEXPECTED SEGMENT CODE
  T5 ..... TARGET OF POINTER IS MISSING
  T6 ..... POINTER IN INDEX DATABASE
  T7 ..... POINTER IN INDEX OVERFLOW DATABASE
  T8 ..... POINTER IN HISAM KSDS
  T9 ..... POINTER IN HISAM ESDS
  TA ..... KEY OF INDEX SOURCE SEGMENT
  TC ..... NUMBER OF ISS, IPS, LC, AND SUM OF COUNTER VALUE
  TT ..... TARGET OF SYMBOLIC POINTER
  TU ..... SYMBOLIC POINTER

DUMP NO. . BLK MAP/DUMP NUMBER FOR PTR/TGT IN SAME BLK, ELSE "OUT"

TARGET OF POINTER:

  DB ..... DATABASE NUMBER OF TARGET SEGMENT
  DG ..... DATA SET GROUP OF TARGET SEGMENT
  RBA .... RELATIVE BYTE ADDRESS OF TARGET SEGMENT
  SC ..... SEGMENT CODE OF TARGET SEGMENT
     ..... ACTUAL (IF TP=T1) OR EXPECTED TARGET SEGMENT CODE

SOURCE OF POINTER:

  DB ..... DATABASE NUMBER OF SEGMENT CONTAINING POINTER
  DG ..... DATA SET GROUP OF SEGMENT CONTAINING POINTER
  RBA .... RELATIVE BYTE ADDRESS OF SEGMENT CONTAINING POINTER
  SC ..... SEGMENT CODE OF SEGMENT CONTAINING POINTER
  PTR..... POINTER TYPE
  RRN..... RELATIVE RECORD NUMBER OF INDEX OR OVERFLOW POINTER
  CHAIN .. POINTER TO NEXT INDEX OR OVERFLOW RECORD
  KEY .... FIRST 30 BYTES OF KEY

DISK ADDRESS OF POINTER:

  BLOCK# . BLOCK CONTAINING POINTER
  VOLUME . DIRECT ACCESS VOLUME ID
  cccCCCCHRR OFST .. DASD ADDRESS OF POINTER (IF YOU REFER OR CHANGE THE DATABASE CONTENTS BY AMASPZAP, CONVERT THE VALUE FORM THE
                     cccCCCCHRR FORMAT INTO THE CCCCHHHHRR FORMAT.)
  PTR .... POINTER TYPE
  RBA .... RBA OF POINTER IN ERROR

ERROR MESSAGES:

  NUMBER . ERROR MESSAGE NUMBER
  DESCRIPTION .. SHORT DESCRIPTION OF ERROR