TurboIMAGE/XL Database Management System Reference Manual MPE/iX V6.5 (30391-90011)

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Using the Database Utilities
>>ACTIVATE
>>ACTIVATE
Activates the database-access file for use with DBOPEN. Before using this command, read
the description of remote database access in chapter 9.
This command should be used to prepare a database-access file before accessing a remote
database residing on another HP 3000.
Syntax
>>A[CTIVATE] database-access file name
For example:
ACTIVATE ORDDBA
where ORDDBA is the database-access file name
Parameter
database-access file name is the name of the database-access file that you created
with an editor.
The database-access file (created on the local system) can
have any legal MPE/iX file name and is not dependent on
the database name.
Unexpected Results
TurboIMAGE/XL checks that the following conditions are not violated:
• File code is 0.
• Record length does not exceed 128 characters.
• File is unnumbered.
• File has at least three records.
An appropriate error message is returned if any of these conditions is violated. If all of the
conditions are satisfied, DBUTIL prints the message:
Verification follows:
and the syntax of the file is checked record by record. The monitoring messages associated
with the file records are of the form:
FILE command: < result >
DSLINE command: < result >
HELLO command: < result >