Dictionary/3000 Reference Manual (32244-90001)

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DICTDBM Commands
ADD
FILE SIZE Enter an integer value for the number of records in the file in that location
(0 to 999999999). DEFAULT is 0.
GROUP Enter the name of an existing HP Inform group (20 characters maximum).
KEY ELEMENT Enter the name of an existing data element (20 characters maximum)
that is as appropriate:
For an AUTO file, the search item and only item for an IMAGE automatic
master set.
For a MAST file, the first element added to an IMAGE manual master set.
For a KSAM file, an element to be used as a key for a KSAM file.
KEY ELEMENT
(N/Y)? Enter Y or Yes if this element is to be a key element for the KSAM file.
DEFAULT is No.
LOCATION Enter the name of an existing location (20 characters maximum).
PARENT FILE Enter the name of the existing parent file (20 character maximum) of the
database set specified by the preceding FILE prompt. The file type must be
type BASE (IMAGE database).
PATH MASTER
FILE Enter the name of an existing file (20 characters maximum) of type MAST
or AUTO which is the chain header for a detail set path. DEFAULT:
Pressing [[RETURN]] in response to this prompt indicates that the
element is not to be a search item.
PATH SORT
ELEMENT Enter the name of an existing data element (20 characters maximum) that
is the sort item for a sorted chain. This prompt is issued if a master data
set's name was given in response to the prompt for PATH MASTER FILE.
DEFAULT: Pressing [[RETURN]] in response to this prompt indicates that
this is not a sorted chain path.
PRIMARY KEY
(N/Y)? This prompt generates data that will be used by the DICTCDE utility.
Enter Y or YES if this element is to be a primary key for the KSAM file.
This prompt will appear for each element associated with the KSAM file
until a primary key is designated. Once an element is entered as a primary
key, the prompt will not appear again for that file. DEFAULT is No. Note
that if you respond to this prompt with NO (or you press
[[RETURN]] as the default) then this element is assumed to be an
alternate key for the KSAM file.
PRIMARY PATH
(N/Y)? If the element is a search item, a Y indicates that it is the primary path for
the detail data set.
Note that if a primary path has already been specified during the current
prompting cycle of the ADD FILE command string, this prompt is not
issued. Next time the ADD FILE command string is issued and the file is
an IMAGE detail data set, this prompt is issued again; however,