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* Where | means OR The following is a list of the dictionary reporting commands and a description of

each.

COPY Makes copies of reports that have been stored.

DELETE Deletes a previously stored report from the dictionary.

DISPLAY Generates reports on dictionary structure, in contrast to the REPORT command, which

generates reportson dictionary data.There are twoavailableoptions: (1) thereport lists

structure names only, or (2) the report lists structure names, plus all other associated

information.

EDIT Edits a stored report definition or description.

EXECUTE Processes a stored report.

MODIFY Allows the addition of a description to a report or the modification of an existing report

description or scope owner.

RENAME Allows the name of a stored report to be changed.

REPORT Generatesreports on dictionarydata,in contrast to the DISPLAY command, which gen-

erates reports on dictionary structure.

SAVE Stores a report definition and also marks the end of this definition.

START Marks the beginning of a report definition.

Selection Criteria

The SDMAIN reporting commands allow a variety of selection criteria that provide ﬂexibility when

producing reports. Unless otherwise noted, you can use any of the selection criteria discussed below with

any parameter for the commands that return information from the dictionary (the DISPLAY, EXECUTE,

and REPORT commands). These criteria allow qualiﬁcation of ﬁelds of the returned items using relational

DELETE REPORT

DISPLAY ATTRIBUTE | DOMAIN | ENTITY-TYPE | RELATIONSHIP-CLASS |

ENTITY-TYPE-ATTRIBUTE | RELATIONSHIP-TYPE | RELATIONSHIP-

TYPE-ATTRIBUTE | REPORT | SCOPE | VERSION

EDIT REPORT

EXECUTE

MODIFY REPORT

RENAME REPORT

REPORT ENTITY | RELATIONSHIP

SAVE

START

Table 5: Dictionary Reporting Commands and Subcommands

COMMAND SUBCOMMAND *