HP System Dictionary/XL General Reference Manual Vol 2 - Part 1 SDINIT (32256-90005)

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A Glossary
This appendix provides a glossary of System Dictionary terms.
Access The right to read or manipulate a dictionary domain or occurrence.
Access Rights The rights of a scope to read or manipulate a domain or occurrence, as determined by
whether that scope is the owner of the item, or is just associated with it.
Alias Name Different names associated with different external subsystem uses of an occurrence,
including a difference in programming syntax (e.g. the use of the underscore (_ ) instead of the hyphen (- )
in names).
Association An explicit access assigned between a scope and a domain, entity, or relationship, which has
been granted to that scope by the owner scope of the domain, entity, or relationship.
Attribute An object in the dictionary structure that is a piece of information describing an entity type or
relationship type.
Attribute Edit A value or range of values used for determining if input attribute values are valid when
creating or modifying an occurrence. Also used to specify the default attribute value to use when an
occurrence is created.
Attribute Prompting A facility that prompts for attribute values whenever you issue a CREATE,
MODIFY, or REPORT command without the ATTRIBUTE-LIST parameter. (SDMAIN only)
Attribute Value The specific information (e.g. text, numbers, etc) assigned to an attribute, describing a
particular occurrence of an entity type or relationship type.
Binary Relationship A relationship involving two entities.
Child Entity The second entity in a relationship.
Command The SDMAIN-defined name that specifies the action to be taken.
Common Domain The primary name space for dictionary occurrences. It is provided with System
Dictionary, is represented by a blank name, is owned by the core set, has a sensitivity of Public, and can
never be modified or deleted.
Compiled Dictionary A read-only dictionary that contains metadata extracted from the master
dictionary. A compiled dictionary consists of one or more flat files.
Core Set A predefined set of entity types, relationship types, relationship classes, attributes, and domains
that are provided with System Dictionary. It also includes the scope CORESET, which owns everything in
the core set. A second scope, the Dictionary Administrator scope, is included in the core set, and is also
owned by the scope CORESET.
DA scope See Dictionary Administrator Scope.
DCB See Dictionary Control Block.
Dictionary Administrator Scope A special scope provided with the System Dictionary core set, which
has unlimited access to all items in the dictionary, and ultimate authority.
Dictionary Control Block An array of data which contains information about the current status of the
dictionary to an intrinsic.
Dictionary Environment The dictionary environment includes the name of the dictionary that is open,