Pathmaker Programming Guide

Contents
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Creating and Customizing a Pathmaker Project 2-21
How Many Pathmaker Projects Should You Create? 2-21
Project Size Limitations 2-21
Adding a Pathmaker Project 2-21
Ownership of a Pathmaker Project 2-22
Loading a New Project From an Existing Project 2-22
Modifying a Project 2-22
Adding User-Supplied Functions 2-23
Defining Data for a Pathmaker Project 2-24
Documenting Enscribe Data 2-25
Documenting NonStop SQL Data 2-27
Creating Additional DDL Structures 2-30
Creating the Physical Database 2-31
Describing Data to Pathmaker 2-31
Preparing Shared Code for a Pathmaker Project 2-41
Registered Macros 2-41
User Conversion Routines 2-43
Creating a Master Requester, Service, or Server 2-44
Section 3 Pathmaker Application Development Overview
Prerequisites 3-1
Before You Begin 3-2
Pathmaker Application Types 3-3
Bottom-Up versus Top-Down 3-4
How to Operate the Full Screen Interface 3-8
Creating a Custom Pathmaker Application 3-15
Creating a DB Requester Application 3-17
Limitations for DB Requester Applications 3-18
Single-File and Multifile DB Requesters 3-22
Standard Services 3-28
Restrictions for DB Requester Applications Accessing NonStop SQL
Databases 3-30
Additional Considerations for DB Requesters Accessing NonStop SQL
Tables 3-31