HP Integrity NonStop J-Series - Manual (Page 355)

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Records, updating
and the DATAFILE attribute 5-9
detailed description 4-5, 5-9
summary description 2-9
supplying a value 2-14, 4-5, 5-9
Record description
adding to a dictionary 3-16
and the DATAFILE attribute 2-15, 5-9
creating 3-12
description 2-1
displaying initial values 2-11
identifying to ENABLE
examples 2-14, 4-5, 5-9
summary description 2-9
Record number field
and INSERT operations 8-20
and READ GENERIC operations 8-17
and the courtesy key 8-5
appearance on the terminal screen 8-8
entry-sequenced files 3-9
relative files 3-9
unstructured files 3-9
RECORD statement
example 3-12, 12-13
submitting to DDL 3-16
Records
defined 2-25
deleting
a single record 8-29
several records at a time 8-29
special considerations 8-33
displaying several within a box 1-4, 6-2
fitting on a tabular format screen 6-21
inserting
a single record 8-20
several records at a time 8-25
keys, See key fields
length limitation 3-15
reading
by a partial key value 8-17
by an exact key value 8-16
by approximate key value 8-15
the first record in a file 8-12
the next record in a file 8-14
retrieval
effect of the ABILITY attributes 6-22
effect of tree structure 5-22
that qualify for the application-access
path 5-22
updating
a single record 8-32
several records at one time 8-32
special considerations 8-33
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