Generating INI Table Definitions

INI table definitions may be generated in NOMADS Data Dictionary Maintenance by doing the following steps:

Step	Description
1.	From the Utilities menu, select Generate external and then select INI file contents.
2.	Select a Table Name by clicking the Query button (magnifying glass) beside the input field. This displays a tree view list of table names by Group. For information on creating a filter to locate a specific table name, see Filtering the Table Names Lookup.
3.	Click the Generate button. The table entry is generated and displayed, and the contents may be cut and pasted from the display or exported to a text file.

Step

Description

From the Utilities menu, select Generate external and then select INI file contents.

Select a Table Name by clicking the Query button (magnifying glass) beside the input field. This displays a tree view list of table names by Group.

For information on creating a filter to locate a specific table name, see Filtering the Table Names Lookup.

Click the Generate button.

The table entry is generated and displayed, and the contents may be cut and pasted from the display or exported to a text file.

INI table definitions may also be generated using the following program CALL:

CALL "*Dict/Defini",contents$,errmsg$,tablename$,ddfpath$

Where:

	contents$	Returns a string containing the table definition.
	errmsg$	Returns an error message if problems are encountered during generation, or null if successful.
	tablename$	Logical name of the table for which the definition is generated.
	ddfpath$	Path of the providex.ddf file containing the table definition.

In the case of tables with multiple record formats, a table entry is created for each format using the MUSTBE clause to identify the field used as the record type indicator.