ENFORM User's Guide

ENFORM Terminology
Introduction
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ENFORM Terminology This guide uses the following terms to discuss the ENFORM language and the output
produced by ENFORM:
Query specifications—the language elements (statements, clauses, commands, ...)
that you specify to provide ENFORM with the information it needs to retrieve
data and to establish the query environment.
Query—one complete LIST or FIND statement. Both the LIST and the FIND
statements specify the information to be retrieved.
Target-list—a part of the query; a target-list is separated into target-items and by-
items.
Target-items—any record names, field names, variable names, aggregate
names, literals, or expressions, including by-items, whose values you want to
appear as output from your query.
By-items—field names modified by a BY or BY DESC clause. The values of the
fields are used to sort and group the query output.
Request-qualification—a condition or conditions that a data base element must
meet before it is selected to contribute to your query output. A request-
qualification begins with a WHERE clause followed by a logical expression.
Target-records—the temporary records built by the query processor from which
your ENFORM output is produced. The query processor returns the target-
records to the query compiler/report writer when the output is to be formatted
and written as a report.