HP Integrity NonStop J-Series - Manual (Page 11)

PREFACE
This guide describes how to use ENABLE, a product that is part of
the ENCOMPASS distributed data base management system provided by
TANDEM, to build simple transaction processing applications.
To use this guide, you must understand your information needs,
have a working knowledge of the Tandem text editor, and be
familiar with some data management application programs. As an
ENABLE user, you need not know the SCREEN COBOL or COBOL
programming languages.
The guide is organized in a sequence that parallels the
development of an ENABLE application:
• Section 1 introduces the capabilities and uses of ENABLE and
identifies its components.
• Section 2 provides an overview of the steps required to produce
an application. This section also introduces some concepts
referred to throughout the remainder of the guide.
• Section 3 provides guidelines for developing, describing, and
creating a data base.
• Section 4 describes the tasks you must perform to develop an
application that can access a single data base file.
• Section 5 describes the tasks you must perform to develop an
application that can access more than one data base file.
• Section 6 describes methods you can use to tailor an ENABLE
application.
• Section 7 provides guidelines for modifying the SCREEN COBOL
source code generated by ENABLE
• Section 8 provides guidelines for using an ENABLE application.
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