This wizard helps you creating a new Segment; you specifies here
its name and label, and moreover the project and package where it will be
saved.
- Project
- Choose a project in the dropdown list or enter the name of the project
in which the Segment will be saved.
- Package
- Choose a package in the dropdown list or enter the name of a new package.
The
name of the package is concatenated with that of the Segment. The two names
are separated by a point. The name of the package can be the name of one of
Pacbase's libraries.
Example:
To be completed
- Name
- Enter the name of the new Segment.
The Segment code is made of the
Data Structure code and a number. If a library is defined with the protection
of extracted entities or no modification of extracted lines, the creation
of a Segment is authorized if its Data Structure exists in the same library
and if the Segment does not exist in a protected library of the network.
The
first character must be numeric and the second one must be either numeric
or alphabetic. However the second character can be alphabetic only if the
first character is other than zero. The possible values of this code are:
- '00'. Common part of records in a file or a Database,
located at the beginning of each record (Default). The control break sort
keys, the record type and the keys of indexed files are contained in this
Segment. A file does not necessarily have a common part. Records on files
with only one type of record should be coded as a '00' Segment.
- '01'–'99' which is a specific part. The common
part Data Elements are automatically concatenated with those of each specific
part Segment.
- Label
- Enter the label, which identifies the new Segment.
Words used in this
field become implicit keywords. This name is broken down into keywords
as follows:
- Blanks within the NAME are considered as delimiters; all equals ('=')
and asterisks ('*') are replaced with blanks,
- Words with more than 13 characters are truncated,
- Only the first 10 words are taken into account,
- Words of only one character are not taken into account,
- A certain number of non-keywords, i.e. empty words, are also ignored: THE,
AN, AND, OR, OF, IS, ARE, OUT, IN, NOT, AT, BUT, IT, ON, NO, IF
- For IMS material, uppercases are required.