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the scope-owner System Dictionary attribute. Most of the Dictionary/V entity deﬁnitions have the

xxxx_RESP ﬁeld which contains the name of the user who is responsible for maintaining the particular

entity. On the other hand, every Dictionary/V entity and relationship has the IDENTITY-CREATE ﬁeld.

Through the SCOPE-OWNER parameter, you can have the RESPONSIBLE ﬁeld, IDENTITY-CREATE

ﬁeld, or the current logon scope name mapped into the scope-owner attribute. This parameter takes the

following form:

SCOPE-OWNER = RESPONSIBLE or IDENTITY-CREATE or LOGON

If RESPONSIBLE is assigned, the responsible user's name will be ﬁrst examined. If it is blank, then the

value of the IDENTITY-CREATE ﬁeld will be used for the scope-owner attribute. If IDENTITY-CREATE

is speciﬁed, the value of that ﬁeld will automatically be used. If LOGON is assigned, then the System

Dictionary logon scope (the value of SCOPE parameter for the SYSDIC command) is used. Note that if

either RESPONSIBLE or IDENTITY-CREATE is speciﬁed, value of the ﬁeld is examined to see if such a

scope exists in the System Dictionary. If not, the new scope is ﬁrst created, the System Dictionary scope is

switched to the new one, and then the deﬁnition is loaded. The default for this parameter is LOGON.

NOTE Do not specify the RESPONSIBLE and IDENTITY-CREATE if the logon scope does

not have the capability to create scope (secure scope capability). Specifying either one

of these without the capability will result in an operational error at loading time.

BACK-REFERENCE Parameter

This parameter enables you to link the attri butes of the RECORD contains ELEMENT relationship or

ELEMENT contains ELEMENT relationship to the child ELEMENT entity's attributes. If this switch is

ON, the back-reference-ﬂag attribute of the relationship is set to true, and the attributes that have

corresponding attributes on the element entity will contain undeﬁned values. On the other hand, if BACK-

REFERENCE = OFF, then the back-reference-ﬂag attribute is set to false, and the relationship attributes

that have corresponding attributes on the child ELEMENT entity will be initialized with values of the

entity attributes. The attributes common between the relationship and the entity are listed below:

element-type

display-length

decimal

blank

justify

edit-mask (variable length attribute)

entry-text (variable length attribute)

heading-text (variable length attribute)

Note that no matter what the value of BACK-REFERENCE parameter is, the description variable length

attribute on the relationship will always contain the description text from the Dictionary/V dictionary, i.e.,

SDCONV assumes that the description attribute never "back-references."

This parameter has the following format:

BACK-REFERENCE = ON or OFF.

The default is ON.

ALIAS Parameter

In Dictionary/V, only some relationship types have the ALIAS ﬁeld, while in the System Dictionary, each

entity/relationship can have a number of aliases associated to it. Therefore, when mapping this