After all the required information is entered in the Block
design editor, you can generate the Block in the Data Description
Language (DDL).
Before you begin
You can first decide where the files are to be generated.
Refer to the link about the target of the generated files for more
explanations.
About this task
The DDL is generated according to the logical information
that is pecified in the Block design, with the Data Elements and Segments
that define the tables, views, and indexes. The generation also takes
into account the physical information that is entered on the
-GG
Lines associated with the Block definition and description
lines.
Note: For the instances that are imported from Pacbase, the skeleton language
of the local generation is identical to the Pacbase skeleton language.
This piece of information is retrieved from the extraction of the Pacbase models and from
the import. It is stored on the Library.
Procedure
You can generate a Database Block in two different ways:
Results
A progress information message box is displayed until the
generation is complete.
The generation produces a
.dll file
(for a relational Block) or a
.txt file (for
the other Blocks) file under the instance in the
Design
Explorer view. Right-click it and select to access the DDL.
The generation also produces the
corresponding metadata files:.dllpdp (for a relational
Block) or a .txtpdp file (for the other Blocks).