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— Statements —

Syntax Overview

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.

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>

(format-length)

[emhdpm]

<array-definition>

(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]},

For more information, see Array Dimension Definition.

`array-init-definition`

FULL LENGTH

<character-s,

ALL LENGTH n

(

index[:index]

,

)

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

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