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Glossary
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Front End. The ENFORM process which compiles ENFORM programs, and prints
reports. See Compiler/Report Writer.
Generic File. A file used to store some class of ENFORM output.
Group Field. A collection of one or more fields that can be accessed with a single name.
Group Name. Name of one or more fields that can be accessed with a single name.
Home Terminal. The terminal from which the ENFORM command is entered.
Link. Specifies a relationship between records in a relational data base to be used in an
ENFORM query.
Literal. One or more numeric or alphanumeric characters. See String Literal and
Numeric Literal.
Logical Expression. An expression that returns a true or false value.
Normalized. Data that has been described in such a manner that only one value exists
for every field position in a record.
Numeric Literal. Composed of the digits 0 through 9. Numeric literals cannot be larger
than 32765 and must be enclosed in parentheses unless they appear in a logical
expression or a TAB, SPACE, SKIP, or FORM clause.
Option Variable. An ENFORM supplied variable that defines certain operational values.
OUT File. The physical device specified in the OUT option of the ENFORM command.
Physical File Name. GUARDIAN file name in the form \system-name.volume-name.subvol-
name.file-name.
Predefined Aggregate. One of the ENFORM aggregates: AVG, COUNT, MAX, MIN, or
SUM.
Primary Key. The field or group of fields that uniquely identifies a record.
Program. A sequence of related ENFORM commands and statements.
Qualification Aggregate. An aggregate that appears in a request-qualification. See also
Aggregate.
Qualified Field Name. A name that uniquely identifies a field as a component of a record
description.
Query. A complete ENFORM LIST or FIND statement specifying which fields and
records to retrieve.
Query Processor (QP). The ENFORM process that opens the files and retrieves the
records from a relational data base for a report or a new file.
Record. A related set of field values.
Record Description. Description of a record in a data base, containing the record name,
the file name and type, and key definitions.
Record Name. Name given a record description in a DDL RECORD statement.