CONTENTS

  Title Page

  Copyright Page

  Preface

  1      Introduction to Customization Management

  1.1     What It Is

  1.2     Elements

  1.3     Application Areas

  1.4     Managing Elements

  1.5     Element Statuses

  1.6     Forms Development and Customization Management

  1.7     The User Interface
    1.7.1      Context-Dependent Options
    1.7.2      Displaying Menu Options
    1.7.3      Supplementary Options

  2      Basic Tasks

  2.1     Entering Customization Management

  2.2     Tailoring Your Customization Management Environment

  2.3     Creating Elements

  2.4     Modifying and Editing Elements

  2.5     Getting Information About Elements

  2.6     Testing Your Application

  2.7     Testing Element Speed

  2.8     Making Elements Available to Users

  2.9     Where to Store Elements
    2.9.1      Choose a Language-Dependent or a Language-Independent Area
    2.9.2      Choose Whether or Not to Use the Text Library

  2.10    Modifying Search Orders
    2.10.1     Options for Working with Search Orders
    2.10.2     Changing Your Default Customization Management Search Orders

  2.11    Protecting Elements from Changes

  2.12    Transferring Customizations

  3      Menu Options

  3.1     Access base elements (ABE)

  3.2     Copy from live area (CFL)

  3.3     Create (C)

  3.4     Create DATATRIEVE domain from an entry form (CDD)

  3.5     Create DATATRIEVE domain from base entry form (CDS)

  3.6     Create RMS file from entry form (CFI)

  3.7     Delete (D)

  3.8     Edit (E)

  3.9     Element speed measurement (ESM)

  3.10    Examine symbol contents (ESC)

  3.11    File attached element (FAE)

  3.12    List application access (LAA)

  3.13    Merge with any element (ME)

  3.14    Merge with base element (MBE)

  3.15    Move to base area (MBA)

  3.16    Move to live area (MLA)

  3.17    Purge element (PU)

  3.18    Remove from live area (RFL)

  3.19    Select (SEL)

  3.20    Send element (S)

  3.21    Set customization environment (SCE)
    3.21.1     Set Working Conditions (SWC)

  3.22    Update element details (UED)

  3.23    View base changes (VBC)

  A   The Forms Development Subsystem

  A.1     Introduction

  A.2     Forms Development Menu

  A.3     Create (C)
    A.3.1      Create a Form (FO)
    A.3.2      Create File from Form (FI)
    A.3.3      DATATRIEVE Definition (DD)

  A.4     Copy a Known Form to Another Form Library (CO)

  A.5     Delete (D)

  A.6     Edit (E)
    A.6.1      Screen Image (S)
    A.6.2      Text Description (T)
    A.6.3      Named Data (ND)

  A.7     Extract a Known Form and Create a New Form (EXT)

  A.8     Index (I)

  A.9     Print (P)
    A.9.1      Description of Form (DF)
    A.9.2      Library Listing (LL)
    A.9.3      Named Data (ND)

  A.10    Precompile Form Library (PCF)

  A.11    Read (R)

  A.12    Reorganize Named Data (RND)

  A.13    Select (SEL)

  FIGURES

  1-1        Structure of an Application Area

  1-2        Applications and Application Areas

  3-1        Merging Elements

  TABLES

  1-1        Supported Element Types

  1-2        Element Statuses

  3-1        Options on the Customization Management Menu