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Retrieving Entity-Occurrences

When you retrieve entity-occurrences of multiple entity-types, you receive only the entity-occurrences of the entity-types you are authorized to access. All the other defined entity-occurrences are ignored.

For example, suppose your CA Datacom Datadictionary contains PROGRAM entity-occurrences A and B, and SYSTEM entity-occurrences X and Y. However, you have authorization to access only the PROGRAM entity-type. A CA Datacom Datadictionary online request to display an index of all entity-types would result in a display that includes PROGRAM entity-occurrences A and B. It would not show SYSTEM entity-occurrences X and Y.

In another example, suppose you request a path report through CA Datacom Datadictionary batch processing for an Index Report of the ORDER-ENTRY database and you only have access to DATABASE and TABLE entity-types. When you submit the following batch reporting commands, you would receive the following reports:

 -USR SAMPLE-USER,PSWD
 -DEF PATH,STANDARD
 -END
 -RPT START,DATABASE,ORDER-ENTRY(PROD),STANDARD
 -RPT INDEX
 -END

For an example report header, see Sample Report Headers.

The following are examples for pages 1 through 5.

User: SAMPLE-USER                     *********************************************************      DD Base:     2

              *-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------*
              *  CODE USER-NAME,PSWD,DATABASE-ID                                                  *
              *  -USR SAMPLE-USER,****                                                   ;00PROC  *
              *-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------*

User: SAMPLE-USER                     *********************************************************      DD Base:     2

-DEF PATH,STANDARD
-END

User: SAMPLE-USER                     *********************************************************      DD Base:     2

-RPT START,DATABASE,ORDER-ENTRY(PROD),STANDARD
-RPT INDEX
-END

User: SAMPLE-USER                     *********************************************************      DD Base:     2

ENTITY-TYPE..................... OCCURRENCE...................... VRSN STS LK PSWD DESCRIPTION..........................
   RECORD..........................     ELEMENT.........................

DATABASE                         ORDER-ENTRY                      0003  P   0      ORDER-ENTRY DEMO DATABASE
TABLE                            ACCTS                            0003  P   0      ORDER-ENTRY ACCTS TABLE
TABLE                            CUST                             0003  P   0      ORDER-ENTRY CUST TABLE
TABLE                            DETAIL                           0003  P   0      ORDER-ENTRY DETAIL TABLE
TABLE                            ORDERS                           0003  P   0      ORDER-ENTRY ORDERS TABLE
TABLE                            ITEMS                            0003  P   0      ORDER-ENTRY ITEMS TABLE
TABLE                            ORD-NO                           0003  P   0      ORDER-ENTRY ORDER-NUMBERS TABLE
TABLE                            RCPTS                            0003  P   0      ORDER-ENTRY RECEIPTS TABLE
TABLE                            SHIPTO                           0003  P   0      ORDER-ENTRY SHIP-TO TABLE
TABLE                            SLSHST                           0003  P   0      ORDER-ENTRY SALES-HIST TABLE
                                        *--------  E N D   O F   J O B  -----------*

The full structure Index Report would include the AREA, KEY, ELEMENT, and FIELD entity-occurrences.

When you request entity-occurrences of a specific entity-type you are not authorized to access, you receive a UNA (user not authorized) CA Datacom Datadictionary Service Facility (DSF) return code or a CA Datacom Datadictionary error message.