This documentation describes all the predefined object types, provided by Predict. Type-specific attributes of the respective object type and the type-specific maintenance and retrieval functions are explained. Each object type is described in a separate section. The object types are arranged in alphabetical order.

This documentation covers the following topics:

General Information	Provides general information on the predefined object types in Predict. It describes global attributes such as object ID, restrictions and keywords. This general information is not repeated in the descriptions of the individual objects.
Access Definition	Objects of type Access Definition document masks and permissions of DB2 columns and tables.
Database	Objects of type Database document a collection of physical and/or logical files.
Dataspace	Objects of type Dataspace document DB2 tablespaces and SQL/DS DBspaces.
Extract	With this object type you can create sets of objects. An extract is used primarily for transferring data with the Predict Coordinator.
Field	With the object type Field you can document field definitions for a wide range of database management systems.
File	With the object type File you can document file structures for a wide range of database management systems. This section also describes the process of rippling.
File Relation	With file relations you can document the relationships between fields in a file.
Interface	Together with objects of type Method, Property and Program, interfaces document the Natural program object class.
Keyword	You can assign objects of type Keyword to other objects in order to link objects logically.
Library Structure	This object type supports the Steplib concept in Natural.
Method	This object type documents the methods of an interface.
Network	Together with objects of type Virtual Machine, networks document the hardware and operating system environment of a data processing system.
Node	This object type together with object type Server documents Remote Procedure Calls.
Packagelist	This object type documents DB2 packages.
Program	With objects of type Program you can document nearly 20 types of programs. Many different programming languages are supported.
Property	This object type documents the properties of an interface.
Report Listing	With this object type Predict Coordinator transfer operations and conversion functions are logged.
Server	This object type is used together with object type Node to document Remote Procedure Calls.
Storagespace	This object type documents DB2 storagegroups.
System	With this object type you can document complex applications.
Trigger	This object type documents SQL triggers.
User/Owner	An object of type User documents an individual user. Several users can be assigned to an Owner to represent organizational units. These owners can be assigned to other objects to link objects logically.
Verification	Objects of type Verification document the processing rules for validating field values.
Virtual Machine	Together with objects of type Network, objects of type Virtual Machine document the hardware and operating system environment of a data processing system.