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entity-type, and then associate the new attribute to the new entity-type.

Dictionary Data Maintenance Commands

Once you have run SDMAIN, opened the dictionary, and deﬁned the environment, you can then begin

entering and updating dictionary data. To do this, however, you must open the dictionary with a scope that

grants you the scope rights that you need. For example, if you need to use versions, you must have a scope

that grants version capability. (See the HP System Dictionary/XL General Reference Manual, Volume 1

for a discussion of scope rights.)

In addition, you must open the dictionary in either shared-update or exclusive-update open mode. These

are the only two modes in which you are allowed to enter and modify data, manage security (create scopes,

etc.), use version capability, and use the domain feature. You cannot modify a compiled dictionary. If you

specify any of the dictionary data maintenance commands with a compiled dictionary, System Dictionary

issues an error message. Table 3-4 lists the data maintenance commands and their subcommands. The

speciﬁc syntax for each of these commands is shown in Chapter 4, "System Dictionary Commands."

>DEFINE DICTIONARY = sysdic;

>>SCOPE = dictionary-administrator;

>>PASSWORD = da;

>>OPEN MODE = customization.

Opens the dictionary with the Dictionary Administrator

scope and customization open mode.

>CREATE ENTITY-TYPE terminal. Creates a new entity-type called terminal.

>CREATE ATTRIBUTE terminal-type;

>>TYPE=c;

>>LENGTH=30.

Creates a new attribute called terminal-type as a character

string containing 30 bytes.

>ADD ENTITY-TYPE-ATTRIBUTE terminal;

>>ATTRIBUTE = terminal-type.

Associates the attribute terminal-type to entity-type termi-

nal.

>EXIT Exits the SDMAIN program, restructuring the dictionary to

incorporate the added structure.

Table 4: Dictionary Data Maintenance Commands and Subcommands

COMMAND SUBCOMMAND *

ADD SCOPE-DOMAIN | SCOPE-ENTITY | SCOPE-RELATIONSHIP

COPY ENTITY | RELATIONSHIP | VERSION

EDIT ENTITY | RELATIONSHIP

SCOPE-RELATIONSHIP

REMOVE SCOPE-DOMAIN | SCOPE-ENTITY | SCOPE-RELATIONSHIP

RENAME DOMAIN | ENTITY | SCOPE | VERSION