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ATTRIBUTESRELATIONSHIPS

 The following is a list of CDD/Plus attributes for which the CDO editor
 provides context-sensitive help.

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CDD$PROCESSING_NAMECDD$PROCESS_NAME_COBCDD$PROCESS_NAME_PLI
CDD$PROCESS_NAME_RPGCDD$PROCESS_NAME_BASCDD$DESCRIPTION
CDD$DATA_ELEMENT_INPUT_PROMPTCDD$DATA_ELEMENT_INITIAL_VALUE
CDD$DATA_ELEMENT_MISSING_VALUECDD$DATA_ELEMENT_DATATYPE
CDD$DATA_ELEMENT_SEG_SUBTYPECDD$DATA_ELEMENT_LENGTH
CDD$DATA_ELEMENT_SEGMENT_LENGTHCDD$DATA_ELEMENT_SCALE
CDD$DATA_ELEMENT_DIGITSCDD$DATA_ELEMENT_JUSTIFICATION
CDD$DATA_ELEMENT_OUTPUT_HEADERCDD$DATA_ELEMENT_EDIT_STRING
CDD$ACCESS_CONTROL_LIST

 PROCESSING NAME

 Names the record or field you want to create.

 The name must be 31 characters or less and start with a character.

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 PROCESS NAME COB

 Provides a name to be used by the COBOL compilier when using this
 record or field definition.

 The name must be 31 characters or less and start with a character.

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 PROCESS NAME PLI

 Provides a name to be used by the PLI compilier when using this record
 or field definition.

 The name must be 31 characters or less and start with a character.

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 PROCESS NAME RPG

 Provides a name to be used by the RPG compilier when using this record
 or field definition.

 The name must be 31 characters or less and start with a character.

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 PROCESS NAME BAS

 Provides a name to be used by the BASIC compilier when using this
 record or field definition.

 The name must be 31 characters or less and start with a character.

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 DESCRIPTION

 A string that adds a comment to the definition.

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 INPUT PROMPT

 Provides a prompt to be used when doing data entry on this field.

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 INITIAL VALUE

 Provides an initial value to be stored for this field if no value is
 specified when doing data entry.

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 MISSING VALUE

 Provides a value to be used on retrieval of this field if it is NULL.

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 DATATYPE

 Identifies the VAX datatype of this element.

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 SEG SUBTYPE

 Defines the type of information in a string segment, according to the
 following table:

 +---------------+------------------------------+
 | a value of    | indicates the information is |
 +---------------+------------------------------+
 | 0             | unspecified                  |
 | 1             | text                         |
 | 2             | BLR                          |
 | 3 to 32,767   | reserved for Digital use     |
 | -32,768 to -1 | reserved for customer use    |
 +---------------+------------------------------+

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 LENGTH

 Defines the length of the field.

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 SEGMENT LENGTH

 Defines the maximum length of the longest segment in a segmented
 string.  This length is the optimal retrieval length.  The segment
 length is specified in bytes.  If this attribute is not specified, the
 default segment length is 512 bytes.

 The SEGMENT_LENGTH attribute may be specified only if the data
 element's DATATYPE attribute is specified as CDD$K_DTYPE_SEG_STRING.

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 SCALE

 Defines the scale factor for the field.  Negative scale is used for
 decimal numbers.

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 DIGITS

 Specifies the number of digits that may be stored in a numeric
 datatype.

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 JUSTIFICATION

 Defines the justification of a text string in a field.  The
 JUSTIFICATION attribute may only be applied to entities whose DATATYPE
 attribute is TEXT or ALPHABETIC.

 LEFT specifies that the string will be stored in the field from left to
 right, with truncation or blank filling done at the end of the string.
 This is the default when the attribute is not specified.

 RIGHT specifies that the string will be stored in the field from right
 to left, with truncation or blank filling at the beginning of the
 string.

 CENTER specifies that the string is to be centered in the field, with
 truncation on the right and blank filling done equally on the left and
 right.

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 OUTPUT HEADER

 Provides text to be used as a heading on reports.

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 EDIT STRING

 Provides the output format when retrieving the field.

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 ACCESS CONTROL LIST

 Allows for the entry of an Access Control List for the entity.  This
 attribute is in VMS binary ACL format.

 If the attribute is not specified, then any accessor has full access to
 the entity.

 The editor does not plan to support ACL editing until after VMS 5.0 is
 available.

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 The following is a list of CDD/Plus relationships for which the CDO
 editor provides context-sensitive help.

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CDD$DATA_ELEMENT_BASED_ONCDD$DATA_AGGREGATE_BASED_ON
CDD$DATA_AGGREGATE_CONTAINS

 BASED ON

 Provide the name of a field or record for the new definition to get
 default attributes from.

 BASED ON

 Provide the name of a field or record for the new definition to default
 attributes from.

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 CONTAINS

 Provide the name of a record or field that is to become part of a
 record definition.

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