# number of descriptors in the command log

**URL:** <https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/number-of-descriptors-in-the-command-log/58189>\
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**Tags:** Adabas-Natural, Adabas, Adabas-on-Mainframes, Adabas-Basics-on-Mainframes\
**Created:** [December 9, 2006, 3:02am UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/number-of-descriptors-in-the-command-log/58189 "2006-12-09T03:02:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Edson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/aca169/32.png) [@Edson](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Edson)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2006, 3:02am UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/number-of-descriptors-in-the-command-log/58189/1 "2006-12-09T03:02:33Z")

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Hi,

I would like to know this: when I have a periodic field in a superdescriptor, then, in the CLOG’s the field number of descriptors updated can be higher than the number of superdescriptors/descriptors of one file?

Thanks by the attencion.

Edson Yuta

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**Author:** ![Douglas\_Kelly](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/user_avatar/techcommunity.softwareag.com/douglas_kelly/32/102_2.png) [@Douglas\_Kelly](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Douglas_Kelly)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2006, 6:03pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/number-of-descriptors-in-the-command-log/58189/2 "2006-12-10T18:03:07Z")

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If you have a superdescriptor based on a PE, then the number of descriptors updated will be the number of descriptors / superdescriptors based on the PE times the number of occurrences of the PE, plus any other descriptors.

That is, there is only one “definition” for a descriptor or a superdescriptor with a PE component, but there will be a super/descriptor per occurrence. (Actually, there are other factors: null suppression and mu-status that can vary the number, but close enough…🙂

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**Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 2:39pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/number-of-descriptors-in-the-command-log/58189/3 "2021-04-02T14:39:06Z")

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