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

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Master Dictionary A dictionary that consists of a database and multiple files. A master dictionary can
be accessed by any of the System Dictionary intrinsics and commands.
Merge A process that combines structure, security, and occurrence date of one dictionary into the same or
other dictionaries.
Metadata Descriptive information about data, but not the data itself. Example: a file card in a library,
which contains information about a book, but is not the book itself; an address of a building, which
provides information about its location, but is not the location itself.
N-ary Relationship A relationship that involves N entities, where 3<=N<=6 (see also Binary
Relationship).
Name mode A parameter set while opening the dictionary, used to cause intrinsics to reference either
internal or external names when accessing dictionary items.
Name set A group of names within the dictionary that includes names for any one of the following types of
dictionary definitions: domains, versions in the same domain, entity types, relationship classes, attributes,
scopes, and entity occurrences of a specific type that are located in the same domain.
Object-Clause The user-defined name of the object. This is the specific target of the action specified by
the command.
Occurrence A specific instance of an entity or relationship.
Open mode One of five dictionary operating modes, set when opening the dictionary for use.
Owner scope A scope that is directly associated with an object in the dictionary and has all rights to it,
because the scope has either created that object, or has been given ownership by the scope that created it
or previously owned it.
Parent Entity The first entity in a relationship.
Password A combination of up to 32 special or alphanumeric characters, and/or blanks used for user
identification purposes to limit access to data or objects within the dictionary.
Preview A process that allows the potential results of a merge operation to be seen before the actual
merge operation is performed.
Primary Name The principal name of an entity, not a synonym, that is initially assigned when the entity
is created. Whenever an entity name is returned by System Dictionary, the primary name is returned.
Relationship A logically connected, ordered series of two to six entities, which belongs to a specific
Relationship Type.
Relationship class The specific class of association or logical connection between the entities in a
relationship.
Relationship position The logical order of a child entity (the second entity in a relationship) relative to
all other child entities for the same parent entity (the first entity in a relationship) of the same relationship
type.
Relationship type An object in the dictionary structure that classifies relationship occurrences; a logical
connection between entity types specified by a series of two to six ordered entity types and a relationship
class. Each relationship type is further defined by an associated set of attributes.
Restructuring A process similar to compiling. Restructuring incorporates all changes made to the
dictionary structure in a single session into the working dictionary, and reformats any dictionary
occurrences that are affected by those structure changes.
Scope A security definition within the dictionary environment that sets the level of access a user has to all