Enform Plus Reference Manual

Commands

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?ASSIGN Command

The ?ASSIGN command associates a physical file with a dictionary record description

or a generic file. This command is functionally equivalent to the TACL ASSIGN

command. The syntax of the ?ASSIGN command is:

record-name

is the name of a record description from a DDL dictionary.

generic-filename

is the name of one of the Enform Plus generic files described under Generic Files on

page 2-10. A generic file is used to store some class of Enform Plus output. The

following names are allowed:

QUERY-COMPILER-LISTING

QUERY-REPORT-LISTING

QUERY-STATISTICS

QUERY-STATUS-MESSAGES

QUERY-WORK-AREA

QUERY-SORT-AREA

QUERY-QPSTATISTICS

QUERY-QPSTATUS-MESSAGES.

physical-filename

For record-name, physical-filename is the name of a physical file being

associated with the record description. TO must be specified if the file name is TO. A

partial file name is expanded by using the default system, volume, and subvolume

names.

For generic-file-name, physical-filename is the name of the physical

device to which you want Enform Plus to direct output.

create-open-spec

is one file creation or open attribute. Only exclusion-spec is used by Enform

Plus. create-open-spec is of the form:

?ASSIGN [ { record-name } [ , ] physical-file-name

[ { generic-file-name } [ TO ]

[ , create-open-spec ... ]

?ASSIGN record-name , { , create-open-spec } ...