Enform Plus Reference Manual

Statements

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DICTIONARY Statement

The DICTIONARY statement allows you to identify the subvolume containing your

dictionary. It also allows you to clear the internal table. The DICTIONARY statement

has the same effect as the ?DICTIONARY command. The syntax of the DICTIONARY

statement is:

dict-subvol-name

is the name of the subvolume where your dictionary files reside. See the Guardian

Programmer's Guide for information on specifying Guardian file names.

The dictionary identified in a DICTIONARY statement must be created by the Data

Definition Language compiler. Enform Plus issues an error message if you attempt to

use a dictionary compiled with a version of DDL that is not current. You must then

recompile the dictionary with a current version. See the Data Definition Language

(DDL) Reference Manual for more information about creating and compiling a

dictionary.

Identifying the Location of the Dictionary

You can identify the location of the dictionary by:

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Specifying the volume and subvolume where the dictionary resides as a part of the

TACL ENFORM run command. If you do not specify a volume and subvolume,

Enform Plus uses your default volume and subvolume as the dictionary location.

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Specifying either the DICTIONARY statement or ?DICTIONARY command to

identify where the dictionary resides. Use of either the DICTIONARY statement or

the ?DICTIONARY command overrides the dictionary identified at the time of the

TACL ENFORM run command. When a new dictionary is specified, the internal table

associated with the old dictionary is cleared.

In the following example, the DICTIONARY statement is used to identify the volume

that the dictionary resides on as $data and the subvolume as database:

DICTIONARY $data.database;

DICTIONARY [ dict-subvol-name ]