This documentation describes the Adabas commands for accessing and manipulating an Adabas database. The commands are generally embedded as calls to Adabas from within an application written in a third generation language such as C (the call interface is described in Calling Adabas).
This documentation is intended for software developers who wish to use Adabas direct calls to develop database applications.
The following syntax conventions are used in this documentation:
- { ... }
items included in curly brackets are mandatory, i.e. you must supply a value.
- [ ... ]
items included in square brackets are optional, i.e. you do not have to supply a value.
- a | b
The vertical bar "|" means that you can supply one or other of the two values on either side of it, but not both. So "a | b" means that you can either supply "a" or "b" but not both.
- ,...
A comma followed by three dots means that you can repeat the item to the left of the comma as often as you want. You must separate successive repetitions by a comma.
The examples given in this documentation use the following notation:
Character strings are enclosed in double quotes. Hexadecimal values are preceded by the two characters "0x" ("^X"). The character 'b' within a character string denotes a blank character.
