They are pointing to different accounts. MD MD is pointing to the current account but MD M/DICT is pointing to the md of the ADMIN account.
If you change MD MD to be the same as MD M/DICT you may break the system especially where file pointers are concerned. Although if you NEED to do this I am sure it can be done. Regards, T. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 9:26 AM Subject: Re: [U2] D3 Master Dictionary > You missed my original point. It appears that there are 2 MD's. One's called > MD and the other is called M/DICT and they both appear to be present in the > application account but reference 2 different files. > > If I type in the following I get the following: > > ED MD MD > 001 Q > > ED MD M/DICT > 001 Q > 002 ADMIN > > There is an account called ADMIN as well as the application account, called > MAIN. > > Apparently the normal file pointer for the Master Dictionary of an account > is the Account's SYSTEM file reference. This is both old-school (native) and > D3 technology. Microdata used to have 4 references to their SYSTEM item that > was the MD for that account: MD, DICT, M/DICT and DL/ID. > > I haven't seen 2 MD's in a while. If I COUNT MD I get 2,000 items. If I > COUNT M/DICT, I get 4,500 items. > > If I type LIST M/DICT "CUSTOMER" I get the display indicating it being > there. > > My question is if I make the MD MD item the same as the MD M/DICT item what > would happen. > > Thanks in advance. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Eugene Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 7:05 PM > Subject: Re: [U2] D3 Master Dictionary > > > > The highest file on a D3 system is known as MDS. It contains the account > > records. In your account called BOB, you have a file called MD which is > the > > equivalent of VOC. It contains all the verbs, file definititions, > cataloged > > programs etc. > > > > When you type LIST CUSTOMER, you are listing the customer file. If you > want > > to list the MD for a record called CUSTOMER, which happens to be your > > CUSTOMER file, you could type LIST MD WITH *A0 "CUSTOMER" and it would > > display it. > > > > Eugene > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Mark Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 3:45 PM > > Subject: [U2] D3 Master Dictionary > > > > > > > Pardon being a D3 question but someone may have run into this before. > > > > > > My new client has D3 on W2K. I edited MD BOB and made 001=PQN, 002=HTIME > > and > > > 003=P, saved it and then type BOB at TCL and get [3] VERB?. > > > > > > I type LIST CUSTOMER and get output but when I type LIST MD = "CUSTOMER" > I > > get > > > nothing. > > > > > > I've found out that there's 2 MD's. One called MD which points to that > > > accounts SYSTEM defined space and another called M/DICT which points to > > > another account that contains the cataloged programs, filenames, verbs > etc > > and > > > lets BOB work. > > > > > > So my question is what would happen if I made MD point to that other > > account? > > > Would I mess anything up. Their system runs 20/7 but I'm not there at > 4am > > to > > > try this. > > > > > > Please no VOC flames. Thanks. > > > ------- > > > u2-users mailing list > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://www.u2ug.org/listinfo/u2-users > > ------- > > u2-users mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.u2ug.org/listinfo/u2-users > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.u2ug.org/listinfo/u2-users ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.u2ug.org/listinfo/u2-users
