Enscribe Programmer's Guide

Changes to the 520369-004 Version of the Manual
• These topics have been updated to support Enscribe 64 partitions which is introduced as of
H06.22 and J06.11 and later RVUs.
◦ Overview and Features (page 18)
◦ Partitioned (Multiple-Volume) Files (page 21)
◦ File Formats Supported: Format 1 and Format 2 (page 46)
◦ Files Secured With Enhanced File Privileges (page 48)
◦ Key-Sequenced and Queue Files (page 48)
◦ Enscribe Key-Sequenced Files (page 68)
◦ Creating Key-Sequenced Files (page 71)
◦ Comparing LKS Files, LKS2 Files, Standard Queue Files, EKS Files, and EKS Files with
Increased Limits (page 71)
◦ Converting a Legacy Key-Sequenced File to an Enhanced Key-Sequenced File (page 72)
◦ Key-Sequenced Format 2 Files (page 73)
– Alternate Keys and Record Locking on page 2-17 and associated topics:
• These topics have been updated in response to Genesis cases:
◦ Alternate Keys and Record Locking (page 35) and associated topics:
– Record Locking Requests and Alternate Key Files (page 36)
– Implementation of Updates to Alternate Key Records (page 36)
– Transaction Aborts, Alternate Keys, and Locks (page 36)
– SETMODE 4 (Set Lock Mode) and Alternate Key Files (page 36)
– SETMODE 4,6 and SETMODE 4,7 (Read through Lock with Warning) (page 36)
◦ Dequeuing a Record (page 111)
◦ Dequeuing From Audited Files (page 112)
◦ Approximate Positioning (page 30)
◦ Generic Positioning (page 30)
◦ Corrected FILE_SETKEY to FILE_SETKEY_ in several sections of the manual.
◦ Corrected minor grammatical and typographical errors reported via Genesis.
• Added hyperlinked topics to the beginning of every chapter to make it easier to locate
information within a chapter.
• HP Encourages Your Comments (page 13)
Changes to the 520369-003 Version of the Manual
• Clarified the behavior described under Reading Deleted Records (page 158), for the alternate
and primary key access.
• Added a note on End-of-File values in Table 6 and added footnote.
• Rebranded the manual with the latest terminology.