Rec/client paramater for logging of table changes

Hello all,
I know that it was asked many times on many forums how to activate the log of a specific tables and most of the answers were about disabling every table activated by default through DD09L table and then use SE13 to enable the ones we want.
But on the documentation on SPRO, there is this mention about "rec/client" parameter :
Set the rec/client profile parameter to one of the following values :
-- mmm,nnn,ppp,...: logs client-specific tables in the named clients
If I understand well, using this value I can focus the logs on a specific table, am I right ?
If so, how do I use it ?
I guess "nnn" is the client number. So what does "mmm", "nnn", "ppp" means ?
Thanks & regards,

Thank you for your answer.
Never mind my question, I misread the description, didn't notice the "s" on "in the named clients". I should have changed the language to my native language
I misunderstood and thought that we could actually put the name of a table directly in this parameter.
So then, my question is, how would do to actually activate the logs only on a specific table because looking at my production server, I can see that there is about 30 000 tables activated by default to be logged.
Thanks

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