Suprtool 5.8 for HP-UX:
User Manual
Doc-To-Help Standard Manual
by Robelle Solutions Technology Inc.
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Table of Contents
Table of
Contents 3
Welcome to Suprtool 18
Introduction......................................................................................................... 18
Suprtool Components............................................................................................ 18
STExport - Data Export Utility.................................................................... 18
Suprlink - Multidataset Access.................................................................... 19
Documentation..................................................................................................... 19
Notation.............................................................................................................. 19
Suprtool Version 5.7 21
Highlights in
Suprtool 5.7...................................................................................... 21
Highlights in
Suprtool 5.6...................................................................................... 21
Highlights in
Suprtool 5.5...................................................................................... 22
Highlights in
HP-UX version 5.4.01........................................................................ 22
Highlights in
HP-UX version 5.4............................................................................. 23
Installing Suprtool 24
Overview............................................................................................................. 24
Who Needs To Use These Instructions...................................................................... 24
Instructions for
HP-UX.......................................................................................... 24
Instructions for
AMXW.......................................................................................... 24
Suprtool Roadmap for HP-UX 25
Road Map to Suprtool on HP-UX............................................................................ 25
Suprtool for HP-UX.................................................................................. 25
Suprtool for HP-UX, with Dynamic Image loading......................................... 25
Suprtool for AMXW.................................................................................. 25
Quick Start Guide for Suprtool 26
How to Run Suprtool............................................................................................ 26
What is a Task?.................................................................................................... 26
Copying Files...................................................................................................... 27
Copying One File..................................................................................... 27
Appending to a File................................................................................... 27
Fields in Data Files............................................................................................... 27
What is a Self-Describing File?.................................................................... 27
Creating an SD File................................................................................... 27
Define Fields in a Data File........................................................................ 27
Create an SD File from a Data File............................................................... 28
Repeating Commands............................................................................................ 28
Repeating a Command............................................................................... 28
Selecting Database Records..................................................................................... 29
Select All Records..................................................................................... 29
Look at the First Few Records..................................................................... 29
Selecting by Criteria.............................................................................................. 30
Simple Criteria......................................................................................... 30
Complex Criteria...................................................................................... 30
String of Digits........................................................................................ 30
Selecting by Date.................................................................................................. 30
Select by Today's Date............................................................................... 31
Select by Particular Date............................................................................. 31
Select by Year.......................................................................................... 31
Select Prior Month.................................................................................... 31
Selecting by Lists of Values.................................................................................... 32
Finding Data Based on a List...................................................................... 32
Finding Data Based on a File...................................................................... 32
Finding Data Based on Another TableÕs Criteria............................................. 33
Finding Data in a Data File......................................................................... 33
Sorting Database Records....................................................................................... 33
Sort Records............................................................................................ 33
Sort Records in Descending Order................................................................ 34
Sort by Multiple Keys............................................................................... 34
Duplicate Records................................................................................................. 34
Report without Duplicate Records................................................................ 34
Report Only the Duplicate Records............................................................... 35
Report Only the Unique Records.................................................................. 35
Report Only the Duplicates and Their Originals.............................................. 36
Deleting Duplicate Data File Records............................................................ 36
Decimal Places..................................................................................................... 37
Converting Numbers.............................................................................................. 37
Counts and Subtotals............................................................................................. 38
Count and Subtotal on Sort Keys................................................................. 38
Sort by Count or Subtotal.......................................................................... 38
Total by Field.......................................................................................... 39
Running Totals......................................................................................... 39
Running SubTotals................................................................................... 39
Listing Records.................................................................................................... 40
Changing the Output Record Format........................................................................ 40
Producing a Condensed Table Listing....................................................................... 41
Simple Reports..................................................................................................... 41
Your First Report...................................................................................... 41
Column Headings..................................................................................... 42
Printing Mailing Labels............................................................................. 42
Running Suprtool under HP-UX 45
Running Suprtool................................................................................................. 45
Configuring Different Shells................................................................................... 45
Bourne and Korn Shells............................................................................. 45
C Shell................................................................................................... 45
Setting Up a PATH for Suprtool.............................................................................. 46
Bourne and Korn Shells............................................................................. 46
C Shell................................................................................................... 46
Dynamic Loading.................................................................................................. 46
Control Characters and stty..................................................................................... 48
Suprmgr Configuration Files................................................................................... 48
On-Line vs. Batch Access....................................................................................... 49
Command Line Options......................................................................................... 49
Initial Command Line: -ccmdstring............................................................. 49
Default Outcount File Name: -oc................................................................. 49
Exit with Verify:
-v.................................................................................. 50
Combining -c and -v.................................................................................. 50
Loader Warnings....................................................................................... 50
HP-UX Notes....................................................................................................... 50
Shell Commands...................................................................................... 50
Hardcoded File Names and ROBELLE Variable.......................................................... 51
ROBELLE Variable................................................................................... 51
/opt/robelle/suprmgr.................................................................................. 51
/opt/robelle/help/suprtool............................................................................ 51
Outcount File........................................................................................... 51
Differences Between MPE and HP-UX...................................................................... 52
Record Length.......................................................................................... 52
Line Feeds............................................................................................... 52
Duplicate Output Files............................................................................... 52
Classic Reals............................................................................................ 52
Input from Stdlist..................................................................................... 53
Missing Features....................................................................................... 53
Suprtool and AMXW 55
What is AMXW.................................................................................................... 55
What is Suprtool for AMXW.................................................................................. 55
Running Suprtool................................................................................................. 55
Symbolic Links and
running Supramxw.................................................................... 55
Suprtool/AMXW.................................................................................................. 56
Form Command....................................................................................... 56
Numrecs Command................................................................................... 56
Output Command..................................................................................... 56
Temporary Files........................................................................................ 57
Appending Records................................................................................... 57
Table operations........................................................................................ 57
Variable Substitution................................................................................. 57
Set Commands......................................................................................... 57
Command Details for AMXW 58
AMXW............................................................................................................... 58
Numrecs Command
[N]......................................................................................... 59
Set Commands..................................................................................................... 60
AMXW Externalsd.................................................................................... 60
AMXW PerfWrite..................................................................................... 60
Filecode.................................................................................................. 60
Squeeze................................................................................................... 61
Suprtool Issues and Solutions 62
A Suprtool Task................................................................................................... 62
Input Choices........................................................................................... 62
Processing Selections................................................................................. 62
Output Choices......................................................................................... 62
Large File Support................................................................................................ 63
Suprtool and Allbase............................................................................................. 63
Data-Types............................................................................................... 63
Date and Time Types................................................................................. 64
Restrictions.............................................................................................. 64
Suprtool and Oracle............................................................................................... 64
Data-Types............................................................................................... 64
Number Data-Type.................................................................................... 65
Order By vs. Sort...................................................................................... 65
Restrictions.............................................................................................. 65
SDUnix Utility..................................................................................................... 66
Installation............................................................................................... 66
SDUnix Parameters................................................................................... 67
LF vs. NOLF........................................................................................... 67
Examples................................................................................................. 67
Link vs. Query......................................................................................... 68
Suprtool and Self-Describing Files........................................................................... 68
Create an SD File from a Table.................................................................... 68
Create an SD File from a Data File............................................................... 68
SD Files as Input...................................................................................... 69
Listing SD Files....................................................................................... 69
Decimal Places and Date Formats................................................................. 69
Extended Field Names............................................................................... 69
Restrictions of SD Files............................................................................. 70
Suprtool and Sorting Files...................................................................................... 70
Suprtool and Personal Computers............................................................................ 70
Downloading to the PC.............................................................................. 70
Decimal Places......................................................................................... 71
Spreadsheets............................................................................................. 71
Suprtool and PowerHouse Applications..................................................................... 71
Suprtool with Quiz/QTP............................................................................ 71
Step 1: Create a Subfile with Quiz............................................................... 72
Step 2: Output Erase in Suprtool................................................................. 72
Step 3: Report with Quiz............................................................................ 72
Using QTP to Create Subfiles..................................................................... 72
Creating Subfile with Script File................................................................. 72
Quiz: Generating Suprtool Commands.......................................................... 73
Year 2000 Solutions with Suprtool.......................................................................... 73
What If I Have Four-Digit Years?................................................................. 73
What does Set Date Cutoff do?.................................................................... 74
Stddate and Set Date Cutoff........................................................................ 74
What does Set Date ForceCentury do?........................................................... 74
What If I Have Two-Digit Years?................................................................. 75
What Is Wrong with Two-Digit Years?.......................................................... 75
How Do $Today and $Date Work?............................................................... 76
Will Suprtool Generate an Error for Two-Digit Year
Dates?............................... 76
How Do I Use $Today and $Date with yymmdd Dates?................................... 76
aammdd Date Format................................................................................. 77
Invalid Dates............................................................................................ 77
Can Suprtool Convert Two-Digit Years to Four Digits?................................... 77
Case 1:
Converting a J2 Date from yymmdd to ccyymmdd.............................. 77
Case 2: X6
yymmdd Data to X8 ccyymmdd................................................. 79
Case 3:
Different Date Formats X6 MMDDYY Data to X6 YYMMDD.............. 80
Year 2000 Testing..................................................................................... 81
Performance Issues................................................................................................ 82
Eloquence Performance............................................................................... 82
Sort Performance....................................................................................... 82
Oracle Performance.................................................................................... 82
Analyzing Performance Data........................................................................ 83
Variable
Substitution............................................................................................. 83
Suprtool Functions................................................................................................ 84
UC4/Scripting and Functions.................................................................................. 84
String/Byte Functions............................................................................................ 84
$TRIM (Works on byte type fields).......................................................................... 84
If Usage:.................................................................................................. 85
Extract Usage (target: Byte type fields).......................................................... 85
Example:................................................................................................. 85
Data Examples Before and After:.................................................................. 85
$LTRIM (Works on Byte type fields)....................................................................... 85
If Usage:.................................................................................................. 85
Extract Usage (target: Byte type fields).......................................................... 85
Example:................................................................................................. 85
Data Examples before and after:................................................................... 85
$RTRIM (Works on Byte type fields)....................................................................... 86
If Usage:.................................................................................................. 86
Extract Usage (target: Byte type fields).......................................................... 86
Example:................................................................................................. 86
Data Examples:......................................................................................... 86
Data Result.............................................................................................. 86
$UPPER (Works on Byte-type fields)....................................................................... 86
If Usage:.................................................................................................. 87
Extract Usage (target: Byte type fields).......................................................... 87
Example:................................................................................................. 87
Data Examples:......................................................................................... 87
$LOWER (Works on Byte-type fields)...................................................................... 87
If Usage:.................................................................................................. 87
Extract Usage:.......................................................................................... 87
Example:................................................................................................. 87
Data Examples:......................................................................................... 87
$PROPER (Works on Byte-type fields)..................................................................... 87
If Usage:.................................................................................................. 88
Extract Usage:.......................................................................................... 88
Example:................................................................................................. 88
Data Examples:......................................................................................... 88
$SPLIT (Works on Byte-type fields)......................................................................... 88
If Usage:.................................................................................................. 88
Extract Usage:.......................................................................................... 88
Data Examples:......................................................................................... 88
Data Examples:......................................................................................... 88
$FINDCLEAN (Works on Byte-type fields)............................................................... 89
If Usage:.................................................................................................. 89
$CLEAN (Works on Byte-type fields)....................................................................... 89
If Usage: (Not commonly used)................................................................... 89
Extract Usage:.......................................................................................... 89
Example:................................................................................................. 89
Data Examples:......................................................................................... 89
$TRANSLATE (Works on Byte-type fields).............................................................. 89
If Usage:.................................................................................................. 90
Extract Usage:.......................................................................................... 90
Data Examples: (Using above code).............................................................. 90
$ETOA............................................................................................................... 90
Extract Usage:.......................................................................................... 90
$ATOE............................................................................................................... 90
Extract Usage:.......................................................................................... 90
String Addition.................................................................................................... 90
Extract Usage:.......................................................................................... 91
Example:................................................................................................. 91
Data Result:............................................................................................. 91
Numeric Functions................................................................................................ 91
$TRUNCATE...................................................................................................... 91
If Usage:.................................................................................................. 91
Extract Usage:.......................................................................................... 91
$ABS................................................................................................................. 91
IF Usage:................................................................................................. 91
Extract Usage:.......................................................................................... 91
$TOTAL............................................................................................................. 92
IF Usage:................................................................................................. 92
Extract Usage:.......................................................................................... 92
$SUBTOTAL....................................................................................................... 92
IF Usage:................................................................................................. 92
Extract Usage:.......................................................................................... 93
Example of $TOTAL and $SUBTOTAL....................................................... 93
$COUNTER........................................................................................................ 93
IF Usage:................................................................................................. 93
Extract Usage:.......................................................................................... 94
$SUBCOUNT...................................................................................................... 94
IF Usage:................................................................................................. 94
Extract Usage:.......................................................................................... 94
Examples for $counter and $subcount:.......................................................... 94
$SIGNED............................................................................................................ 95
IF Usage:................................................................................................. 95
Extract Usage:.......................................................................................... 95
Arithmetic Operations............................................................................................ 95
+ - * / mod.............................................................................................. 95
If Usage:.................................................................................................. 95
Extract Usage:.......................................................................................... 95
Conversion/Formatting.......................................................................................... 95
$NUMBER.......................................................................................................... 95
If Usage:.................................................................................................. 96
Extract Usage:.......................................................................................... 96
Data Examples:......................................................................................... 96
$EDIT................................................................................................................. 96
If Usage:.................................................................................................. 96
Extract Usage:.......................................................................................... 96
Data Examples:......................................................................................... 96
Other Functions.................................................................................................... 97
$LOOKUP........................................................................................................... 97
If Usage:.................................................................................................. 97
Extract Usage:.......................................................................................... 97
$NULL............................................................................................................... 97
$READ............................................................................................................... 97
If Usage:.................................................................................................. 97
Date Functions..................................................................................................... 98
$TODAY............................................................................................................. 98
If Usage:.................................................................................................. 98
Extract Usage:.......................................................................................... 98
$DATE............................................................................................................... 98
If Usage:.................................................................................................. 98
Extract Usage:.......................................................................................... 98
$INVALID........................................................................................................... 98
If Usage:.................................................................................................. 98
Extract Usage:.......................................................................................... 98
$STDDATE......................................................................................................... 99
If Usage:.................................................................................................. 99
Extract Usage:.......................................................................................... 99
$DAYS............................................................................................................... 99
If Usage:.................................................................................................. 99
Extract Usage:.......................................................................................... 99
Suprtool Commands 100
General Notes..................................................................................................... 100
Abbreviating........................................................................................... 100
Uppercase or Lowercase............................................................................ 100
Multiple Commands per Line.................................................................... 100
Continuation.......................................................................................... 101
Comments on Command Lines.................................................................. 101
HP-UX Commands.................................................................................. 102
Calculator.............................................................................................. 102
Control-Y Interrupt.................................................................................. 102
Add Command
[Add].......................................................................................... 103
Notes.................................................................................................... 103
Examples............................................................................................... 103
Base Command
[BA].......................................................................................... 105
Before Command
[B].......................................................................................... 107
Chain Command
[C]........................................................................................... 109
Clean Command
[CL]......................................................................................... 111
Removing Bad Characters......................................................................... 111
Define Command
[D].......................................................................................... 112
Delete Command
[DEL]...................................................................................... 117
Do Command
[DO]............................................................................................ 119
Duplicate Command
[DU].................................................................................... 120
Edit Command
[ED]........................................................................................... 125
Exit Command
[E]............................................................................................. 126
Export Command
[EXP]...................................................................................... 128
Extract Command
[EXT]..................................................................................... 129
Constants............................................................................................... 129
Dates..................................................................................................... 131
Range of Fields....................................................................................... 133
Numeric Expressions................................................................................ 135
$SubTotal Function................................................................................. 136
$Total Function...................................................................................... 137
$Counter Function................................................................................... 137
String Expressions................................................................................... 138
Splitting Variable
Length Strings............................................................... 139
Cleaning your Data.................................................................................. 140
Un-printables.......................................................................................... 140
Clean Command
Syntax........................................................................... 141
Setting the Clean
Character....................................................................... 141
Cleaning a Field...................................................................................... 141
Cleaning your data................................................................................... 141
Extract from a Table................................................................................. 142
Data Conversion...................................................................................... 143
$Number Function................................................................................... 144
Numeric to Byte
Conversion..................................................................... 145
$Edit Function........................................................................................ 146
Placeholders and
Format Characters............................................................ 146
Byte-Type
Formatting.............................................................................. 146
Z-placeholder for
byte-fields...................................................................... 147
Overflow and
limits................................................................................. 147
Numeric field
edit-masks.......................................................................... 148
Signs.................................................................................................... 148
Decimal Places........................................................................................ 149
Data and Edit
mask:................................................................................. 149
Currency and
Dollar signs......................................................................... 149
Overflow and
floating dollar...................................................................... 150
Set CurrencySymbol................................................................................ 150
Overflow and
limits................................................................................. 150
Restrictions............................................................................................ 150
Form Command
[F]............................................................................................ 153
Get Command
[G].............................................................................................. 156
Help Command
[H]............................................................................................ 158
If Command
[IF]................................................................................................ 159
Expressions............................................................................................ 159
Constants............................................................................................... 162
Subscripts.............................................................................................. 163
Numeric Expressions................................................................................ 164
String Expressions................................................................................... 166
Date Selection......................................................................................... 169
Long Expressions.................................................................................... 174
Input Command
[I]............................................................................................. 177
Item Command
[IT]............................................................................................ 179
Date Formats.......................................................................................... 179
Decimal Places........................................................................................ 182
Notes.................................................................................................... 183
Key Command
[K]............................................................................................. 185
Link Command
[LIN]......................................................................................... 187
List Command
[L].............................................................................................. 188
Format.................................................................................................. 188
LaserJet Listings..................................................................................... 189
Headings in Listings................................................................................ 190
Simple Reports....................................................................................... 191
List Device............................................................................................. 192
List File................................................................................................ 192
Listredo Command
[LISTREDO].......................................................................... 195
Numrecs Command
[N]....................................................................................... 196
Open Command [OP].......................................................................................... 197
Remote Databases and Oracle Issues............................................................ 197
Output Command
[O]......................................................................................... 198
Put Command
[P].............................................................................................. 204
Q Command
[Q]................................................................................................ 205
Redo Command
[REDO]..................................................................................... 206
Reset Command
[R]........................................................................................... 209
Select Command
[SEL]....................................................................................... 210
Set Command
[S]............................................................................................... 211
Allbase.................................................................................................. 213
Arithmetic.............................................................................................. 213
Baseclose............................................................................................... 213
Blocksize............................................................................................... 213
Buffer.................................................................................................... 213
CleanChar.............................................................................................. 213
Comlog................................................................................................. 214
CurrencySymbol..................................................................................... 214
Date Cutoff............................................................................................ 215
Date ForceCentury................................................................................... 216
Date IfYY2000Error................................................................................. 216
Date MapToPHDate8............................................................................... 217
DecimalSymbol...................................................................................... 217
Defer..................................................................................................... 217
DumpOnError......................................................................................... 217
EditStopError......................................................................................... 217
Eofread.................................................................................................. 218
FastRead................................................................................................ 218
Filecode................................................................................................. 218
Filename................................................................................................ 218
Firstrec.................................................................................................. 219
Hints..................................................................................................... 219
HPUXCmdErr Ò<string>Ó......................................................................... 219
Ifcheck................................................................................................... 220
Ignore.................................................................................................... 220
InitExtents............................................................................................. 220
ItemAbbreviateDate.................................................................................. 220
ItemLock............................................................................................... 220
Interactive.............................................................................................. 221
LabelledTapeRewind................................................................................ 221
Limits................................................................................................... 221
Table Size.............................................................................................. 221
Read Only.............................................................................................. 222
List....................................................................................................... 222
List Date................................................................................................ 222
List PCL............................................................................................... 222
List Time............................................................................................... 224
List FormFeed........................................................................................ 224
Lock..................................................................................................... 224
MakeAbsent........................................................................................... 224
NLS...................................................................................................... 224
NumBug................................................................................................ 225
Openmode.............................................................................................. 225
Oracle Rows........................................................................................... 226
Oracle Integer.......................................................................................... 226
Oracle OpenFix....................................................................................... 226
Oracle PassShift...................................................................................... 227
Oracle SpaceNull..................................................................................... 227
Oracle ZeroNull....................................................................................... 227
Pattern................................................................................................... 227
Prefetch................................................................................................. 228
Privmode............................................................................................... 228
Progress................................................................................................. 228
Prompt.................................................................................................. 229
RealMap................................................................................................ 229
Recover................................................................................................. 229
Redo..................................................................................................... 229
SDExtname............................................................................................ 230
Sortfast.................................................................................................. 231
Squeeze................................................................................................. 231
Statistics................................................................................................ 231
Subsystem............................................................................................. 231
Suspend................................................................................................. 231
ThousandSymbol.................................................................................... 231
Userlabels.............................................................................................. 231
Varsub................................................................................................... 231
VarsubCompat........................................................................................ 232
VarsubDebug.......................................................................................... 232
Warnings............................................................................................... 232
Sort Command
[SO]........................................................................................... 233
Table Command [TA].......................................................................................... 235
Adding Individual Values to a Table........................................................... 235
Adding Values from a File........................................................................ 236
TRanslate Command [TR].................................................................................... 239
Total Command [T]............................................................................................. 240
Update Command
[UP]....................................................................................... 242
Use Command
[U].............................................................................................. 243
Userpause Command
[USER]............................................................................... 245
Verify Command
[V].......................................................................................... 246
Xeq Command
[X]............................................................................................. 247
Calculator Command [=]...................................................................................... 248
Suprtool Errors and Warnings 251
Two Types Of Messages....................................................................................... 251
Errors................................................................................................................ 251
Warnings........................................................................................................... 252
Welcome to STExport 253
Welcome to STExport.......................................................................................... 253
Installing STExport............................................................................................. 253
Accessing STExport 255
How To Run STExport........................................................................................ 255
How to Xeq an STExport Task.............................................................................. 255
Hardcoded File Names and ROBELLE Variable........................................................ 255
ROBELLE Variable................................................................................. 255
Using STExport in Batch...................................................................................... 256
Command Line Options....................................................................................... 256
Default Outcount File Name: -oc............................................................... 256
Variable Substitution -v............................................................................ 256
Introduction to STExport 257
Importing Data.................................................................................................... 257
Input File........................................................................................................... 257
Data-Types......................................................................................................... 257
Formatting Commands......................................................................................... 258
Commands......................................................................................................... 258
Performance Considerations................................................................................... 258
STExport Commands 259
General Notes..................................................................................................... 259
Abbreviating........................................................................................... 259
Uppercase or Lowercase............................................................................ 259
Comments on Command Lines.................................................................. 259
HP-UX Commands.................................................................................. 259
File Names............................................................................................. 260
Calculator.............................................................................................. 260
Control-Y.............................................................................................. 260
Before Command
[B].......................................................................................... 261
Clean Command
[CL]......................................................................................... 263
Removing Bad Characters......................................................................... 263
Columns Command
[C]...................................................................................... 264
Date Command
[DA].......................................................................................... 265
Decimal Command
[DEC]................................................................................... 267
Delimiter Command
[DE].................................................................................... 268
Do Command
[DO]............................................................................................ 269
Escape Command
[ES]........................................................................................ 270
Exit Command
[E]............................................................................................. 271
Exit Abort [EA]...................................................................................... 271
Exit Suspend [ES]................................................................................... 271
Exit Xeq [EX]......................................................................................... 271
Floating Command
[FL]...................................................................................... 272
Form Command
[F]............................................................................................ 273
Heading Command
[HEA]................................................................................... 274
Help Command
[H]............................................................................................ 276
HTML Command
[HT]....................................................................................... 277
Dynamic Web Pages................................................................................ 279
Web Server............................................................................................. 279
Shell Script............................................................................................ 280
Perl Script.............................................................................................. 282
CGI Script............................................................................................. 283
Input Command
[I]............................................................................................. 285
Listredo Command
[LISTREDO].......................................................................... 286
Output Command
[O]......................................................................................... 287
Quote Command
[Q]........................................................................................... 288
Redo Command
[REDO]..................................................................................... 289
Reset Command
[R]........................................................................................... 290
Set Command
[S]............................................................................................... 291
CleanChar.............................................................................................. 291
Comlog................................................................................................. 291
Mapped................................................................................................. 292
Redo..................................................................................................... 292
Statistics................................................................................................ 293
Varsub................................................................................................... 293
VarsubCompat........................................................................................ 293
VarsubDebug.......................................................................................... 293
Warnings............................................................................................... 294
Xmltagchar............................................................................................. 294
ZonedFix............................................................................................... 294
Sign Command
[SI]............................................................................................ 296
Spaces Command
[SP]........................................................................................ 297
Use Command
[U].............................................................................................. 298
Verify Command
[V].......................................................................................... 299
Xeq Command
[X]............................................................................................. 300
XML Command
[XML]...................................................................................... 301
Zero Command
[Z]............................................................................................. 304
Example of STExport Output 305
Example............................................................................................................ 305
Limits Within STExport 309
Maximums......................................................................................................... 309
Welcome to Dbedit 310
Introduction........................................................................................................ 310
Restrictions........................................................................................................ 310
Functions of Dbedit............................................................................................. 310
Performance of Dbedit.......................................................................................... 311
Field Lists......................................................................................................... 311
Database Locking................................................................................................ 312
Decimal Points................................................................................................... 312
Critical-Item Update............................................................................................. 313
Dbedit Commands 314
General Notes..................................................................................................... 314
Abbreviating........................................................................................... 314
Uppercase or Lowercase............................................................................ 314
Continuation.......................................................................................... 314
Control-Y.............................................................................................. 315
Comments on Command Lines.................................................................. 315
OS Commands....................................................................................... 315
Calculator.............................................................................................. 315
Example Database.................................................................................... 316
Prompting for Search Criteria.................................................................... 316
Command Parameters........................................................................................... 316
File Parameter......................................................................................... 316
Option Parameter..................................................................................... 317
Numeric-Value Option.............................................................................. 317
All Option............................................................................................. 317
Key Option............................................................................................ 318
Limit Option.......................................................................................... 318
Related Option........................................................................................ 318