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mat of the attribute is: YYYYMMDDhhmmsstt where
YYYY is the year
MM is the month
DD is the day
hh is the hour
mm is the minute
ss is the seconds
tt is the tenths of seconds
date-changed This attribute is a 16-character field that describes the date and time the entity or re-
lationship was last changed. The dictionary intrinsics always generate its value. The
format of the attribute is the same as that described in the date-created attribute.
decimal This attribute is a 4-byte binary field that describes the number of places to the right
of the decimal point of an element.
default This attribute is a variable length field that contains a default value.
description This attribute is a variable length field that holds description text.
directive This attribute is a 10-character field that describes a compilation directive.
directory-version This attribute is a 2-byte binary field that indicates the version of the Network Direc-
tory Path Report.
display-length This attribute is 4-byte binary field that contains a count of the number of display
characters or digits of an entity.
document-type This attribute is a 10-character field that contains the document type. Example doc-
ument types are 'CHART', 'DRAW', 'FIGURE'.
edit-mask This attribute is a variable length field that contains an edit mask used for displaying
or inputting an entity's value.
element-display This attribute is a Boolean field that flags whether an element entity should be dis-
played on the Inform Data Names Menu. If true, it is displayed. If false, it is not dis-
played.
element-type This attribute is a 2-character field that describes the type of an element. The possible
values are:
U = upper case ASCII
X = upper or lower case ASCII
9 = numeric ASCII
Z = zoned decimal
P = packed decimal
I = integer binary
J = integer binary (COBOL)