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

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Dictionary/V ALIAS ﬁeld, SDCONV must choose the most appropriate System Dictionary alias ﬁeld for the

particular relationship. For example, if you are converting an entry from the FILE-ELEMENT detail set

(relationship) with the ﬁle type = MAST, then the obvious System Dictionary destination alias is the

image-alias, since the ﬁle in question is an TurboIMAGE/V ﬁle. However, for some others, the destination

is not so clear. Hence, SDCONV provides the ALIAS parameter with which you can specify which System

Dictionary alias will be the destination of the Dictionary/V ALIAS ﬁeld with unclear destination. Check

the description of detail set conversion to see whether a particular ALIAS ﬁeld in Dictionary/V has a ﬁxed

alias destination.

The format of the parameter is

ALIAS = COBOL, IMAGE, PASCAL, STANDARD, VPLUS or HPSQL

The table below shows what each parameter value stands for.

The default for this parameter is STANDARD.

SENSITIVITY Parameter

This parameter speciﬁes the sensitivity attribute with which each System Dictionary deﬁnition is created.

You can assign READ, MODIFY, or PRIVATE to the sensitivity parameter in the following fashion:

SENSITIVITY = READ or MODIFY or PRIVATE

If you issue LOAD with PRIVATE SENSITIVITY and SCOPE-OWNER = RESPONSIBLE or IDENTITY-

CREATE, SDCONV will issue an error message and does not proceed with the loading process, because

such a combination may cause problems while creating relationships. For example, If entity E1 created by

scope S1 , entity E2 by scope S2 , then, S2 needs at least the READ sensitivity to establish a relationship

between E1 and E2 . Hence, the PRIVATE sensitivity will be considered invalid altogether if SCOPE-

OWNER is not LOGON. The default for this parameter is READ.

PACK-DESCRIPTION Parameter

This parameter speciﬁes how the DESCRIPTION text which is r eturned from Dictionary/V will be

converted to System Dictionary. This parameter has the following form:

PACK DESCRIPTION = ON or OFF

If ON is speciﬁed, extra trailing blanks will be removed from each line of text, and, to save storage space,

line boundaries will be ignored. If OFF is speciﬁed, text will be converted line by line as it is stored in the

dictionary. Although it requires more storage space than ON, OFF is useful for maintaining column or

outline format when converting text. The default for this parameter is OFF.

parm value destination alias

COBOL cobol-alias

IMAGE image-alias

PASCAL pascal-alias

STANDARD standard-alias

VPLUS vplus-alias

HPSQL hpsql-alias