# Map Reporting to Structure Converion **URL:** \ **Category:** Forum\ **Tags:** Adabas-Natural, Natural, Natural-Add-on-Products, Natural-Engineer, Natural-Other-Addons\ **Created:** [April 30, 2018, 8:31pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/map-reporting-to-structure-converion/199051 "2018-04-30T20:31:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Theo\_Emmelkamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cc9497/32.png) [@Theo\_Emmelkamp](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Theo_Emmelkamp)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2018, 8:31pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/map-reporting-to-structure-converion/199051/1 "2018-04-30T20:31:34Z")
Does Natural Engineer convert objects of the type of Map from reporting to structure? When I look at the object types list within Natural Engineer I do not see Map as a selection. ---
**Author:** ![Ralph\_Zbrog](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/user_avatar/techcommunity.softwareag.com/ralph_zbrog/32/78_2.png) [@Ralph\_Zbrog](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Ralph_Zbrog)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2018, 1:24am UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/map-reporting-to-structure-converion/199051/2 "2018-05-01T01:24:51Z")
I’ll let the NEE experts answer your question, but I wouldn’t expect there to be much demand for such a feature, based on my experience of seeing few shops embrace processing rules. Without processing rules, a map is a simple INPUT or WRITE statement, neither of which is affected by programming mode, and all the variables are delimited with DEFINE and END-DEFINE, also mode-neutral. “Converting” such maps would provide no benefit. (And changing the mode of these maps is simple with Natural commands.) ---
**Author:** ![Theo\_Emmelkamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cc9497/32.png) [@Theo\_Emmelkamp](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Theo_Emmelkamp)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2018, 4:10pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/map-reporting-to-structure-converion/199051/3 "2018-05-01T16:10:48Z")
What simple with Natural commands would be used to change the mode of the maps? ---
**Author:** ![Ralph\_Zbrog](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/user_avatar/techcommunity.softwareag.com/ralph_zbrog/32/78_2.png) [@Ralph\_Zbrog](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Ralph_Zbrog)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2018, 5:36pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/map-reporting-to-structure-converion/199051/4 "2018-05-01T17:36:50Z")
On the mainframe - edit a map - PF3 to the “Edit Map” menu - tab to the Command line - enter GLOBALS SM=T - use Code S to save the map - use Code T to check the map’s source (Reporting Mode processing rules will be flagged) It’s a similar procedure under LUW. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 3:40pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/map-reporting-to-structure-converion/199051/5 "2021-04-02T15:40:33Z")