Dictionary Statement; Identifying The Location Of The Dictionary - Tandem ENFORM 058057 Reference Manual

Statements

DICTIONARY Statement

DICTIONARY
Statement
Identifying the Location of
the Dictionary
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The DICTIONARY statement allows you to identify the subvolume containing your
dictionary. It also allows you to clear the internal table. The DICTIONARY statement
has the same effect as the ?DICTIONARY command. The syntax of the DICTIONARY
statement is:
DICTIONARY [ dict-subvol-name ]
dict-subvol-name
is the name of the subvolume where your dictionary files reside. Refer to the
GUARDIAN Operating System Programmer's Guide for information on specifying
Tandem file names.
The dictionary identified in a DICTIONARY statement must be created by the Data
Definition Language compiler. ENFORM issues an error message if you attempt to
use a dictionary compiled with a version of DDL that is not current. You must then
recompile the dictionary with a current version. Refer to the Data Definition Language
(DDL) Reference Manual for more information about creating and compiling a
dictionary.
You can identify the location of the dictionary by:
Specifying the volume and subvolume where the dictionary resides as a part of the
Command Interpreter ENFORM command. If you do not specify a volume and
subvolume, ENFORM assumes the dictionary resides on your default volume and
subvolume.
Specifying either the DICTIONARY statement or ?DICTIONARY command to
identify where the dictionary resides. Use of either the DICTIONARY statement
or the ?DICTIONARY command overrides the dictionary identified at the time of
the Command Interpreter ENFORM command. When a new dictionary is
specified, the internal table associated with the old dictionary is cleared.
In the following example, the DICTIONARY statement is used to identify the volume
that the dictionary resides on as $data and the subvolume as database:
DICTIONARY $data.database;
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