Dictionary/3000 Reference Manual (32244-90001)

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The Dictionary DICTCDE Utility
The DICTCDE Main Prompt
Changing the DICTCDE Options
DICTCDE provides a set of options which allows you to change the Dictionary used, the
copylib used, and the DICTCDE defaults; and it allows you to run the COBOL copylib
editor, COBEDIT.
To change any of the options offered by DICTCDE, enter an O in response to the main
prompt. DICTCDE will then issue a series of prompts which allow you to change any of the
options. Each of the prompts displays the value currently being used by DICTCDE in
either of two ways. For some of the prompts, the current value is shown within parenthesis
as a single value. For example, the current value for the following prompt is DICT.PUB:
Dictionary name (DICT.PUB)>
For prompts which ask a choice to be made, the current value is also within parenthesis. It
is the value to the left of the slash. In this example, the current value is Y (Yes):
List definitions on the terminal (Y/N)>
When O is entered in response to the main prompt, DICTCDE issues the following
message:
Press RETURN to retain current value and move to the next option.
The following is a list of all the prompts which are used to change the values for the
options and a brief explanation of each of them. (A more detailed explanation for each of
these prompts follows the list.)
Dictionary name (current
Dictionary )> allows you to change the Dictionary from which you
extract definitions.
Copylib file name (current
copylib )> allows you to change the copylib for the generated code.
Run COBEDIT (N/Y)> allows you to run the copylib editor, COBEDIT, from
within DICTCDE.
List definitions on the
terminal (Y/N)> allows you to suppress the generated code from being
displayed on the terminal.
Comment the definitions
(N/Y)> allows you to generate comment lines for the extracted
entities.
Use Primary name or Alias
COBOL identifier (P/A)> allows you to use the aliases for the extracted entities.
Qualify data sets and forms with
their parent files (N/Y)> allows you to use the name of the database or forms file as
the prefix for the data set or form.
Use edit mask for PICTURE
clause (Y/N)> allows you to create display fields from items in the
Dictionary that have edit masks.