Defining an Application Structure Using ADSA › Instructions › Step 1: Invoke ADSA

Step 1: Invoke ADSA

To invoke ADSA, you must be signed on to a DC/UCF system. Procedures for signing on to DC/UCF differ from site to site. If you are not sure how to sign on, ask other users at your site for help.

Before you invoke ADSA, you may want to establish a default dictionary and/or Distributed Database (DDS) node for the current definition session under DC/UCF. Naming a default dictionary is useful if you are working in a multiple-dictionary environment. Naming a DDS node is useful only if you are working in a distributed database network.

At some sites, signon profiles for each user establish the appropriate default dictionary and/or node for each user that signs on to CA IDMS/DC or DC/UCF.

If you want to establish defaults for your current DC/UCF session, enter the appropriate commands, one at a time, after signing on to DC/UCF:

• You name a default dictionary by entering:

  DCUF SET DICTNAME dictionary-name
  

• You name a default DDS node by entering:

  DCUF SET DICTNODE node-name
  

You can display the names of your default dictionary and DDS node at any time by entering, one at a time:

DCUF SHOW DICTNAME

DCUF SHOW DICTNODE

Specifying the task code for ADSA

When you've signed on to DC/UCF and optionally established a default dictionary name/node, you can invoke ADSA. To do this, you enter the task code for ADSA1.

For example, if the task code for ADSA is ADSAT, you can invoke ADSA from CA IDMS/DC as shown:

ENTER NEXT TASK CODE:
adsat 

                                         Press the ENTER
                                         key to input the --► [Enter]
                                         task code for
                                         ADSA.

Using the task code ADSAT means that you are invoking ADSA under TCF (the transfer control facility). Once you are in the ADSA tool under TCF, you can switch to another application development tool without returning to DC/UCF.

Main menu screen

ADSA begins with the Main Menu screen:

     Add  Modify  Compile  Delete  Display  Switch
  .____________________________________________________________________________.

                        CA ADS Application Compiler

                      CA, Inc.



     Application name . . . .    ________
     Application version  . .    ____
     Dictionary name  . . . .    ________
     Dictionary node  . . . .    ________

     Screen . . . . . . . . . _    1. General options
                                   2. Responses and Functions
                                   3. Global records
                                   4. Task codes


       Copyright (C) 1999 CA, Inc.

  Command ===>
  Enter  F1=Help  F3=Exit  F10=Action

If you are using a teleprocessing monitor other tha CA IDMS/DC, specify the task code for ADSA in response to the prompt presented by that monitor. For more information on task codes for CA ADS development tools, see Application Development Tools.

After you invoke ADSA, you can begin defining the application, as described below.