Introduction to ENFORM

Preface
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This publication is an introduction to the ENFORM query and report writing
language. ENFORM enables all users of a Tandem system to query an online
database—to ask questions about their business and to retrieve the answers (as
reports) on their terminals or as printed documents.
This publication is for anybody who is about to use ENFORM for the first time. It has
several goals: to present basic ENFORM concepts; to start teaching you how to use
ENFORM; and to enable you to start evaluating ENFORM potential for use in an
online transaction processing environment.
The organization of the publication is:
Section 1—an overview of the ENFORM product’s purpose and features. Anyone
who is interested in ENFORM should read this section.
Section 2—a quick summary (with examples) of using ENFORM language
specifications to produce reports. Readers who are interested in learning how to
write queries should read this section for terminology and basic features of the
language.
Section 3—a conceptual description of how ENFORM works. Readers who are
primarily interested in writing queries can skip this section.
Section 4—a simple tutorial on using ENFORM; it concentrates on teaching you
how to do some of the tasks involved in generating a complete report. This
section can be used without reading any of the preceding sections. Reading this
section will help to prepare you for using the more detailed information in the
ENFORM Reference Manual.
For additional information related to understanding and using ENFORM, see the
following publications:
ENFORM Reference Manual
Data Definition Language (DDL) Reference Manual