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Global Records

Global records are records that are available to all dialogs, maps, and user programs in an application. Subschema records cannot be defined as global records.

The ADSO-APPLICATION-GLOBAL-RECORD is the system-defined global record that enables communication between the application and the runtime system. To be accessed by a dialog, the ADSO-APPLICATION-GLOBAL-RECORD must either be specified as a dialog work record or be associated with the dialog's map. This record is initialized when an application is first loaded by the runtime system.

All fields in the .hw ADSO--APPLICATION--GLOBAl--RECORD are addressable by dialogs or user programs.