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all objects in the dictionary. It includes up to six scope rights.
Scope Right - One of six specific capabilities associated with a scope. The scope right specifies which
dictionary components that scope is allowed to manipulate.
Security - A protection scheme within System Dictionary that limits access to objects in the dictionary to
authorized users. The primary elements of dictionary security are scopes In addition, dictionary domains
and occurrences each have a sensitivity, which further define their access by a specific scope.
Sensitivity - An access right associated with a dictionary domain or occurrence.
Special Attributes - The set of attributes that are automatically assigned to entity types and
relationship types when the types are created.
Status - Information about the success or failure of an intrinsic call. The status is returned as the final
parameter of intrinsic calls.
Structure - The part of System Dictionary that includes both core set and extended set entity types,
relationship types, relationship classes, and attributes.
Subcommand - The SDMAIN-defined name hat specifies the general target of the action.
Synonym - An alternate name for an entity in the dictionary. A synonym must uniquely identify a given
entity.
Variable Length Attribute - An attribute whose value must be explicitly defined, and whose length is
dependent upon that value. Example: an attribute description, whose value is sixty bytes of text.
Therefore, the length of the attribute is sixty.
Version - A set of occurrences within a domain, set apart from other sets within the domain.