What Is the Purpose of This Manual?
The ADABAS User Manual for UNIX describes operating system-specific aspects of the work with ADABAS under UNIX. It contains the information needed to call and use the ADABAS tools as well as the ADABAS programming interface under UNIX.
The ADABAS tools and the ADABAS programming interface form as ADABAS components the interface between user and database.
What Are the Prerequisites ?
This manual does not enter into the particulars of the general usage of ADABAS and its components. It is meant to be a complement of the individual ADABAS manuals which contain a detailed explanation of the usage of the ADABAS tools and programming interface as well as of their functionalities. It is assumed that the reader of this manual is already familiar with the main functionality of the ADABAS components used by him.
Who Should Use This Manual ?
This manual provides additional information for any user who works with ADABAS under UNIX including
- the ADABAS user who usually works with the end user tools or who accesses the database using precompiled application programs.
- the application programmer who uses the precompilers to construct and test UNIX application programs with embedded SQL.
- the database administrator or database operator who must perform administrative tasks, for example, as CONTROL user.
What Is the Structure of This Manual ?
Each section of the "user manual for unix" is directed to a certain kind of user.
First of all, the connect of a user to the database is described in Section Establishing a Database Session. The connect procedure is the same for almost all the ADABAS components. The user specifications required for the connect can be recorded by using the special tool XUSER (see Section Connect With Predefined User Specifications (XUSER) and Using XUSER). The other ADABAS components can retrieve them from there.
The following Section General Information explains the calls of the end user tools QUERY and LOAD, as well as their operating system specific functions and properties. The work with the editor built into some of the tools is described as well (see Section The Built-in Editor). This part of the manual is intended for all users who work with the end user tools of ADABAS.
Sections C / C++ and COBOL are primarily directed to the application programmer who uses the ADABAS programming interface to construct application programs with embedded SQL. This section contains, in concise form, information about the call of the precompilers, the compilation and linkage of the precompiled programs, as well as the syntax and meanings of the precompiler and runtime options.
Section Administration Tools only contains information for the database administrator or database operator. It explains the different formats of the calls of the administrative tools CONTROL (see Section CONTROL) and AUDIT (see Section AUDIT) and their operating system specific functions and properties.
Appendix 1 contains a short description of the special tool XSQL (see Appendix 1 - XSQL).
Appendix 2 shows the layouts for some common keyboards (see Appendix 2 - Keyboard Layouts).