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

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SDCONV performs a serial read through DATA-FILE, and chains into the FILE search item in FILE-EL-
SECOND. The value of each field is mapped to the System Dictionary according to the following:
Notes
1 ELEMENT is u sed first to create a RECORD entity if it does not exist already. When creating it,
the byte-length attribute is initialized with the value of the ELEMENT's ELEMENT-LENGTH.
Then, ELEMENT is used as the second entity of the entity list in the RECORD contains ELE-
MENT relationship. Note that if BACK-REFERENCE= OFF, then the ELEMENT entity informa-
tion retrieved from DATA-ELEMENT is used to initialize some of the relationship attributes. The
following table shows how the attributes are initialized if BACK-REFERENCE = OFF:
FILE entity name for the FILE entity
ELEMENT entity name for the ELEMENT entity*1
ELEMENT-ALIAS See note 2
DATA-CREATE Not mapped. See DATA-ELEMENT.
DATE CHANGE Not mapped. See DATA-ELEMENT.
IDENTITY-CREATE scope-owner attribute
IDENTITY-CHANGE Not mapped. See ELEMENT-ELEMENT.
DESCRIPTION-KEY description attribute
POSITION Not mapped
attribute value assigned
type ELEMENT-TYPE from DATA-ELEMENT
byte-offset generated by SDCONV (starts from 1)
display-length ELEMENT-SIZE from DATA-ELEMENT
decimal ELEMENT-DEC from DATA-ELEMENT
byte-length ELEMENT-LENGTH from DATA-ELEMENT
count ELEMENT-COUNT from DATA-ELEMENT
units ELEMENT-UNITS from DATA-ELEMENT
sign ELEMENT-SIGN from DATA-ELEMENT
blank ELEMENT-BLANK from DATA-ELEMENT
justify ELEMENT-JUST from DATA-ELEMENT
synchronize ELEMENT-SYNC from DATA-ELEMENT
edit-mask (variable) ELEMENT-EDIT from child ELEMENT
entry-text (variable) ELEMENT-ENTRY from child ELEMENT
heading-text (variable) ELEMENT-HEAD from child ELEMENT