HP System Dictionary/XL SDMAIN Reference Manual (32256-90001)

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may read and modify the entity.
If you modify the sensitivity from read or modify to private, all scopes that previously had access to this
entity will no longer have access, unless the entity is explicitly associated with the scope. If the entity is
linked to an entity in the common domain, the sensitivity for this entity cannot be changed to a sensitivity
greater than the sensitivity of the entity in the common domain. To link the entity to an entity in the
common domain, the current version must be linked to a version in the common domain.
Open Mode: Shared-update or exclusive-update
Scope: DA scope or any scope with create capability and modify access to the entity
Example
The following example deletes the alias attribute value for cobol-alias and changes the type of file and
minimum and maximum record sizes for the file base01.
>MODIFY ENTITY base01;
>>ENTITY-TYPE = file;
>>ATTRIBUTE-LIST = (cobol-alias = ,
>>file-type = sequential,
>>min-record-size = 128,
>>max-record-size = 256).
>
MODIFY ENTITY-TYPE
Modifies an entity type.
Syntax
M[ODIFY] E[NTITY-]T[YPE] entity-type-name
[;S[COPE-]O[WNER] = scope-owner-name ]
.
Parameters
entity-type-name Name of the entity type to be modified.
scope-owner-name Name of the new owner scope.
Description
Open Mode: Customization
Scope: DA scope or the entity type's owner scope
Example
The following example changes the owner scope of entity-type terminal to the scope manager.
>MODIFY ENTITY-TYPE terminal;