The entitySelection.count( ) method returns the number of entities in the entity selection with a non-null value in attributePath. 
Note: Only scalar values are taken into account. Object or collection type values are considered as null values. 
An error is returned if:
 
    We want to find out the total number of employees for a company without counting any whose job title has not been specified:
 C_OBJECT($sel)
 C_REAL($count)
 
 $sel:=ds.Employee.query("employer = :1";"Acme, Inc")
 $count:=$sel.count("jobtitle")