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Phase C. Translating Dictionary/3000 Definitions [ Information Access Server: Planning and Configuring ] MPE/iX 5.0 Documentation


Information Access Server: Planning and Configuring

Phase C. Translating Dictionary/3000 Definitions 

Skip to Phase D if you don't use Dictionary/3000 or if none of the
information in your Dictionary/3000 data dictionaries needs to be
translated into your Information Access data dictionary.

You translate information from Dictionary/3000 data dictionaries by
running the Translator Utility, specifying a Dictionary/3000 data
dictionary (either on the host or on a configured remote system), and
specifying one or more databases to be translated.

Secondary DBAs become the controlling DBA for databases and tables they
add using the Translator Utility.

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|                 What You Do                 |                What Happens                 |
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| C-1.  Run the Translator Utility by using   | The Entry screen appears.                   |
| the UDC command TRANS, or by typing RUN     |                                             |
| TRANS.PPC.SYS and pressing Return.          |                                             |
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| C-2.  Type your user name in the User field | The Dictionary/3000 Information screen      |
| and your password in the User Password      | appears.                                    |
| field, then press Enter.                    |                                             |
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| C-3.  Type the name, location, and password | The Translator Utility opens the specified  |
| of the Dictionary/3000 data dictionary you  | data dictionary and the Database            |
| want to translate from, then press Enter.   | Information screen appears.                 |
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| C-4.  Type the group, account, and password | The Translator Utility opens each specified |
| of the databases you want to translate,     | database to verify the correctness of what  |
| then press Enter.                           | you typed.  If a database is not yet        |
|                                             | defined in the Information Access data      |
| If a database is controlled by another DBA, | dictionary, the Translator Utility adds its |
| a secondary DBA cannot use tables from that | definition.                                 |
| database using the Translator Utility.      |                                             |
|                                             | Then, for all datasets (with no more than   |
|                                             | 64 items) defined in the Dictionary/3000    |
|                                             | data dictionary, the Translator Utility     |
|                                             | adds an IMAGE table definition to the       |
|                                             | Information Access data dictionary.  When   |
|                                             | you add a table in this way, you become the |
|                                             | controlling DBA for that table.             |
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|                                             | The results of each operation the           |
|                                             | Translator Utility performs are written to  |
|                                             | your terminal and to the log file TRANSLOG. |
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| C-5.  Choose  TRANS Main f8 to return to    | The Dictionary/3000 Information screen      |
| the Dictionary/3000 Information screen.     | appears.                                    |
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| C-6.  If you have another Dictionary/3000   | The information from each Dictionary/3000   |
| data dictionary to be translated, repeat    | data dictionary is translated and added to  |
| Steps C-3 through C-5.                      | the Information Access data dictionary.     |
|                                             | The log file continues to record the        |
|                                             | results of each operation the Translator    |
|                                             | Utility performs.                           |
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| C-7.  If you want to print the log file,    | The log file is output to the file          |
| choose  Print Log File f1.                  | TRANLIST, whose default print device is LP. |
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| C-8.  Choose  Exit TRANS f8 to exit from    | The Translator Utility completes its        |
| the utility.                                | operation and the MPE prompt returns.       |
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