Progress/400
Product Guide
Adding a Table
The Progress/400 Data Dictionary allows you to add a table to an existing library. The DataServer takes the definitions you provide and creates a physical file on the AS/400 with those characteristics. You can then access that physical file through Progress applications or through AS/400 applications. Non-Progress applications ignore Progress features that you might include, such as validation expressions and messages.
Follow these steps to add a table:
- Choose the Table mode button in the Progress/400 Data Dictionary main window.
- Choose Modify schema.
- Choose the Create Table button. The following dialog box appears:
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- Enter a name in the Table Name field. This is the name by which Progress recognizes this object, so it should follow Progress naming conventions. Specify a unique name.
- Press TAB and the physical file, library, and dump filenames are supplied for you based on the table name. For example, for a table named newcust, the AS/400 physical file name is NEWCUST, the library name is the object library.
If you do not want default values, enter the information in each field.
- Enter other information that you want to add to the definition for the new table. Choose the Help button to access detailed information on all of the elements in the dialog box.
- Choose OK.
- Create fields and indexes for the file.
You modified the data definitions in the server schema on the AS/400. Your server schema now contains an object that is not reflected in the client schema holder until you synchronize it.
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