This document contains a complete summary of the syntax boxes used in the DEFINE DATA statement descriptions.

It provides information about the way the keywords, clauses, parameters, options and other syntax elements are to be arranged and combined in the program statement lines.

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General Syntax

DEFINE DATA

[GLOBAL USING   global-data-area   [WITH   block[.block] ]]

PARAMETER

USING parameter-data-area

parameter-data-definition

OBJECT

USING

local-data-area

parameter-data-area

data-definition

LOCAL

USING

local-data-area

parameter-data-area

direct-data-definition

[INDEPENDENT [AIV-data-definition ]]

CONTEXT

USING

local-data-area

parameter-data-area

context-data-definition

END-DEFINE

Basic Syntax Elements

The following topics are covered below:

• data-definition

• parameter-data-definition

• parameter-handle-definition

• variable-definition

• view-definition

• redefinition

• init-definition

• array-definition

• array-init-definition

• emhdpm

• AIV-data-definition

• context-data-definition

data-definition

	level		group-name [(array-definition)]
			variable-definition
			view-definition
			redefinition
			handle-definition

For more information, see Defining Local Data or Defining NaturalX Objects.

parameter-data-definition

level

group-name [(array-definition)]

redefinition

(format-length[/array-definition])

variable-name

[BY VALUE [RESULT]] [OPTIONAL]

A U B

[(array-definition)]

DYNAMIC

parameter-handle-definition [BY VALUE [RESULT]] [OPTIONAL]

For more information, see Defining Parameter Data.

parameter-handle-definition

handle-name  [(array-definition)]  HANDLE OF OBJECT

For more information, see Parameter Handle Data Definition.

variable-definition

<scalar-definition> <array-definition>

<scalar-definition>

variable-name

(format-length)

CONSTANT INIT

init-definition

[emhdpm]

A U B

DYNAMIC

<array-definition>

variable-name

(format-length/ array-definition)

CONSTANT INIT

array-init-definition

[emhdpm]

A U B

/array-definition

DYNAMIC

For more information, see Variable Definition.

view-definition

view-name VIEW [OF] ddm-name

level

ddm-field

([format-length][/array-definition])

[emhdpm]

A U B

[/array-definition]

DYNAMIC

redefinition

For more information, see View Definition.

redefinition

REDEFINE field-name		level		rgroup
				rfield (format-length [/array-definition])
				FILLER nX

For more information, see Redefinition.

init-definition

	<constant>
	<system-variable>
	FULL LENGTH <character-s>
	LENGTH n <character-s>

For more information, see Initial/Constant Values for Array.

array-definition

{bound[:bound]},3

For more information, see Array Dimension Definition.

array-init-definition

FULL LENGTH

<character-s,>

ALL

LENGTH n

(

index[:index]

,3

)

<

constant

>

V

system-variable,

For more information, see Initial/Constant Values for an Array.

emhdpm

([EM=value] [HD='text'] [PM=value])

For more information, see EM, HD, PM Parameters for Field/Variable.

AIV-data-definition

level		variable-definition
		redefinition
		handle-definition

For more information, see Defining Application-Independent Variables.

context-data-definition

level		variable-definition
		redefinition
		handle-definition

For more information, see Defining Context Variables for Natural RPC