HP Integrity NonStop J-Series - Manual (Page 25)

TASK OVERVIEW
Supplying Specifications
If a dictionary exists but does not contain an appropriate record
description, you must add the record description to it before you
try to generate an application. Section 3 also contains
information about adding a record description to an existing
dictionary.
SUPPLYING SPECIFICATIONS
When you use ENABLE, you must supply specifications that
define and control program components called objects.
There are two types of objects recognized by ENABLE:
applications and boxes.
An application consists of a SCREEN COBOL program generated by
ENABLE, the optional PATHCOM command file, and the provided
General Server. Each application has attributes that describe
it and for which you can supply values. For example, you can
supply a value such as T16-6520 for the attribute (TERMINAL) that
describes the type of terminal upon which an application runs.
By supplying values for other application attributes, you can
describe such global characteristics of an application as:
• The name of the file to which ENABLE writes the PATHCOM
commands
• The title that the application displays on the terminal
screen
A box represents a particular data base file and how it is to be
handled by the application. The term "box" is derived from the
box that a multifile application uses to enclose data from a
file. Each box has attributes that describe it and for which you
can supply values. You can, for example, indicate:
• How the application is to display information from the file on
the teminal screen
• The types of operations (DELETE, INSERT, READ, or UPDATE) that
the application can perform upon the file
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