HP 3000 Manuals

HP System Dictionary XL Gen. Ref. Vol. 2-Part 2 SDUPGRAD

Chapter 1  Introduction 

SDUPGRAD Overview 

SDUPGRAD is a utility program provided with the A.00.01 and later
versions of System Dictionary.  It allows you to upgrade System
Dictionary to the most current version provided by HP.

Note that the current version of this utility will include the functions
of all previous versions also.  This means that you can run SDUPGRAD
against any version of the dictionary and it will modify the dictionary
as necessary to bring it up to the current version.

For example, if you run SDUPGRAD against a version A.00.00 dictionary, it
will update the dictionary directly to the current level.  These
modifications will extend the core set of System Dictionary version
A.00.00 to accommodate the following:

 *  HP SQL 
 *  HP IMAGE 
 *  Level 88 declarations in COBOL

The new core set definitions are listed in Table 1-1 through Table 1-4,
on the following pages.

If, however, you run SDUPGRAD against a version A.00.01 dictionary, it
will modify only the dictionary database structure.  SDUPGRAD holds user
data while the database structure is being modified and reloads the data
afterward.  Note that the coreset file SDCOREST.PUB.SYS is not needed by
A.00.02 or later versions of SDUPGRAD to extend the core set of an
A.00.00 version of the dictionary.  If it exists, you may purge this
file.

You must run SDUPGRAD separately on each dictionary to be upgraded.
Hewlett-Packard recommends that one person (e.g., the Dictionary
Administrator) be designated to locate all the dictionaries on the system
and ensure that the SDUPGRAD utility is run against each dictionary.  For
some sites, this may mean that one person performs all the upgrades; at
other sites, where the number of dictionaries is large or where security
is crucial, several users may perform the upgrades in different MPE
accounts.

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