The PPM system provides the following internal data types. These cannot be changed.
Data type |
Example |
Units or scaling levels |
Units (Description) |
BOOLEAN |
"true" |
- |
- |
TEXT |
"Example text" |
- |
- |
TEXTPAIR |
"Text 1\Text 2" |
LEVEL1SCALE |
Rough level |
LONG |
"-231456789" |
- |
- |
DOUBLE |
"3.1428" |
- |
- |
DAY |
"24.03.2003" |
|
No unit, but levels of accuracy: |
TIME |
"01.01.2002 08:15:23" The data type is identical to the data types DATE and TIMESTAMP |
|
No unit, but levels of accuracy: |
TIMEOFDAY |
"12:41:56" |
|
No unit, but levels of accuracy: |
TIMESPAN |
"23 SECOND" |
SECOND |
Second |
FACTORY TIMESPAN |
"23 FACTORY_HOUR" |
FACTORY_SECOND |
Person-second |
FREQUENCY |
"86400 PER_DAY" |
PER_SECOND |
per second |
PERCENTAGE |
"63 PERCENT" |
PERCENT |
Percent |
For the time-based data types, the base unit is always seconds. The PERCENTAGE data type does not have a base unit.
Warning
The TEXTPAIR data type is used internally by PPM to process binary query results (e.g., process type group\process type). This data type is not suitable for direct data exchange, as the backslash (\) separator is replaced by the slash (/) character when importing an XML file.