Introduction F01 - Views
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What is a view?
A view is how you tell our product the processing you require to be done. You create a view in the “workbench” part of our product. It is called a view because the main part of a view is a like a spreadsheet - you define the output fields and the input source and calculations or whatever it is you need done.
What happens to a view?
- Workbench creates a view and other informatioin. All this information is called metadata.
- Start phase - creates ??
- Reference phase - the view reads the relevant files once and creates working files.
- Extract phase - reads the working files and creates your results.
- Format phase (optional) - may further improve your results.
What can a view do for you?
Anything you need. The usual tasks are:
- Access data in reference files. For example, use a customer key to access customer details.
- Update files
- Create reports
- Whatever mainframe processing you require. For example a SQL query can be done in a view.
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