In EAE, only 26 extract/print files are supported. The code in RIP checks the supplied file equates for the known and limited file names and provides some conversions, for example, TITLE is expanded into FILENAME and FAMILYNAME.

AB Suite supports a significantly larger number of extract files and print files within a report. This makes it difficult to logically check every possible extract file/print file name combination equate within RIP. To manage this, RIP now uses the MCP routine, DECODEATTLIST to handle the supplied file equations.

The disadvantage of this is that a TITLE attribute is no longer separated into the FILENAME and FAMILYNAME components. This is an issue when USERBACKUPNAME is supplied as this requires the FILENAME and FAMILYNAME settings. It is recommended that you should set the USERBACKUPNAME attribute in the RIP file equates to provide a FILENAME and FAMILYNAME rather than a TITLE.