Data Warehouse Center Application Integration Guide

How the Information Catalog Manager reads tag language files

When you code a tag language file, consider how the Information Catalog Manager reads tag language files:

• The Information Catalog Manager reads the entire tag language file as a continuous data stream.
• The Information Catalog Manager treats any character with a hexadecimal value under X'20' (except for tab and new line character tags that are specified in property values) as a control character and ignores that character.
• The Information Catalog Manager considers a tag complete when it encounters the next tag in the tag language file.
• Tags and keywords are not translated into national languages.
• Only the values for the keywords in Table 117 are enabled for double-byte character set (DBCS) support.
  

  Table 117. Keyword values enabled for DBCS
  

  Tag name	Keywords	Variable value
  OBJECT	EXTNAME ICWFILE	ext_name Windows_ICON_file_name
  PROPERTY	EXTNAME	ext_name
  COMMIT	CHKPID	checkpt_id
  INSTANCE	UUI_short_name or short_name	UUI_property_value or property_value

  All user-defined property values can use DBCS characters.

• The Information Catalog Manager accepts DBCS blanks only in the keyword values that are shown in Table 118. If DBCS blanks appear anywhere else in the tag language file, errors can occur.
  

  Table 118. Keyword values enabled for DBCS blank characters
  

  Tag name	Keywords
  ACTION	OBJTYPE OBJINST RELATION
  OBJECT	All keywords
  PROPERTY	All keywords
  RELTYPE	All keywords
  COMMIT	CHKPID
  INSTANCE	UUI_short_name or short_name