Because the Information Catalog Manager is designed to be used by several different levels of users, different terminology is used for describing object types for different product users. You find less technical, more business-oriented terms in the Information Catalog Manager interface and in the books Information Catalog Manager User's Guide and the Information Catalog Manager Administration Guide.
In this book terms are oriented to the data processing environment for administrators and application programmers.
You need to be aware of these terminology differences when writing
applications for users or administrators. Table 4 provides a quick reference to the different levels of
terminology.
Table 4. The Information Catalog Manager terminology for object types
| Description | User term | Administrator term | Tag language term | API call term |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Long (80-byte) name of object type | Object type | Object type name | EXTNAME(ext_name) | EXTERNAL NAME OF OBJ TYPE
NAME property in the input or output structure |
| Short (8-character) name of the object type | -- | Short name | TYPE (type) | DP NAME
DPNAME property in the input or output structure |
| Name of the information catalog database table containing the object type information | -- | -- | PHYNAME (table_name)
TYPE (type) if PHYNAME is not specified | PHYSICAL TYPE NAME
PTNAME property in input or output structure |
| Long (80-byte) property name | Property | Property name | EXTNAME (ext_name) | Property name |
| Property short (8-character) name | -- | Short name | SHRTNAME (short_name) | Property short name |