Information Catalog Manager Administration Guide

Creating an object

You create objects of various types to represent the actual information available in your organization. You can create objects by using the Information Catalog Manager windows or tag language.

Creating an object by using the Information Catalog Manager windows

Start from the Information Catalog window:

  1. Right-click the Object types icon in the Information Catalog Manager Catalog window.
  2. Click Open as --> Icon list.
  3. Right-click the icon of the object type for which you want to create an object.

    You cannot create an object by using either the Programs or Comments icons. You create a Programs object when you associate a program with an existing object type (see Associating a program with object types). You create a Comments object from an existing object of another object type (see Associating comments and objects).

  4. Click Create object.

    The Create Object window opens.




    In the Create Object window, creating a new "Income Tax Return" object called 1995 Taxes.

  5. In the Properties/Values list, click a property.
  6. Type a value for the property in the Enter value for selected property field.
  7. Click Enter to move the value to the Value column in the Properties/Values list.

    If you want to erase what you entered in the Enter value for selected property field, click Clear.

  8. Click Create when you finish entering values.

    To close the window without creating an object, click Cancel.

Creating an object using the Information Catalog Manager tag language

You can create many objects at the same time by using the Information Catalog Manager tag language. You can include the tag language for creating an object in the same tag language file in which you defined the object type, after the object type definition. The properties can go in any order, and you can omit properties for which you do not have a value.

Enter the following lines in your tag language file, using as many short_name(value_for_property) lines as necessary to identify all the object type properties. 

ACTION.OBJINST(ADD)
OBJECT.TYPE(short_name_of_object_type)
INSTANCE.short_name(value_for_property)
    short_name(value_for_property)
    short_name(value_for_property)

After each keyword, type an appropriate value within the parentheses:

Keyword
Value

TYPE
The short name of the object type for which you are creating an object.

short_name
The short name of the object type property.

For each object, type the short name of each object type property, followed by a value for the property in parentheses. Figure 4 shows an example of tag language to create an object. The example uses the object type that is created with the definition in Figure 3.

Figure 4. Creating an object with tag language

COMMENT.--------------------------------------------------------
COMMENT. Creating objects of object type 
COMMENT. "Relational tables and views"
COMMENT.---------------------------------------------------------
ACTION.OBJINST(ADD)
OBJECT.TYPE(TABLES)
INSTANCE.NAME(Customer)
     SHRTDESC(Customer information table)
     LONGDESC(Customer number, name, CelDial rep, customer contact information.)
     ACTIONS(Click on 'Start Program...' to invoke Visualizer TableViewer.)
     REMARKS(DB2 table) DBNAME(DGWDATA) OWNER(USERID) TABLE(CUSTOMER)
     URL(http://$$$@@@/info_cat/db2www/dg_tableviewer.mac/Table_Login?DATABASE=
DGWDATA&TABLE=CUSTOMER&OWNER=USERID)
     SOURCE(DB2 SYSTEM CATALOGS)

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