1. D3 supports PQ and PQN procs interchangably. 2. LIST MD = "CUSTOMER" resulted in No Items Present. 3. I don't plan to change either MD or M/DICT. I will change my habit and store my MD stuff in M/DICT. 4. Typing LIST-FILES got me the files listed and when I edited the process LIST-FILES, I saw the M/DICT.
Thanks for all who helped. Mark Johnson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 9:27 PM Subject: RE: [U2] D3 Master Dictionary > Mark: > > > Pardon being a D3 question but someone may have run into this > > before. > > > > My new client has D3 on W2K. I edited MD BOB and made > > 001=PQN, > > 002=HTIME and > > 003=P, saved it and then type BOB at TCL and get [3] VERB?. > > There are no PQN procs in D3 (I don't believe). Change field 001 to PQ. > > > I type LIST CUSTOMER and get output but when I type LIST MD = > > "CUSTOMER" I get nothing. > > I'm not sure what's up since "CUSTOMER" is a file (or q pointer) and should > reside in the MD. When you say you "...get nothing" what do you mean (let's > see the command and the result). > > > I've found out that there's 2 MD's. One called MD which points > > to that accounts SYSTEM defined space and another called > > M/DICT which points to another account that contains the > > cataloged programs, filenames, verbs etc and lets BOB work. > > That's unusual. Usually the MD "MD" item is a q pointer to the current > account and so is the MD "M/DICT" item. They're synonyms. There must be > specific reasons to change that structure and I'm not going to guess. I'm > not sure what you mean by the "...SYSTEM defined space" but I'd guess you > mean it points to the current account like: > > MD 'MD' size = 116 > 01 q > 02 > 03 > 04 > 05 > 06 > 07 > 08 > 09 l > 10 17 > 11 > 12 > 13 > 14 > 15 > 16 > 17 the item.id of a dictionary item is the name of the language > element being defined. > > > So my question is what would happen if I made MD point to that > > other account? Would I mess anything up. Their system runs > > 20/7 but I'm not there at 4am to try this. > > I'd suggest you NEVER mess with this as someone else has made the change for > some reason. Normally the "M/DICT" item is a synonym to "MD" but is changed > for some unknown reason. In D3, you can reference another accounts MD by > simply referencing "ACCOUNT,," or "ACCOUNT,MD,". If the "M/DICT" item has > changed I'd think there is a reference to "M/DICT" somewhere but won't guess > where. > > I can't say for sure, but when you execute a verb the MD is searched first. > I don't know if the M/DICT is searched next or at all. So, either the > "M/DICT" MD item is inconsequential or it acts a little like a PATH. Maybe > a posting to CDP would answer this. > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.u2ug.org/listinfo/u2-users ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.u2ug.org/listinfo/u2-users
