ENABLE User's Guide

SECTION 2
GENERATING AND EXECUTING AN APPLICATION--OVERVIEW
This section provides an overview of the tasks that you perform
to generate and execute an ENABLE application. These tasks are:
1. Providing a data dictionary that contains a description of
each file to be accessed by the application
2. Supplying specifications, in the form of ENABLE commands,
that describe the application
3. Creating the data base file (or files) to be accessed by the
application if the files do not already exist
4. Establishing a PATHWAY system to execute the application
PROVIDING A DATA DICTIONARY
A data dictionary is a set of files that document the structure
and organization of a data base. A data dictionary contains one
or more record descriptions; each record description provides a
format for the records stored in a data base file.
If a dictionary does not exist, you must create one before you
try to generate an application. Section 3 provides information
about creating a dictionary.
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