Data Transfer Between Dictionaries

This appendix outlines the procedures for transferring some or all of the data in one dictionary to another dictionary. An overview of the procedure is presented, followed by an example. The DDDL PUNCH and INCLUDE statements facilitate this transfer process, as follows:

PUNCH provides the user with the ability to collect, by means of a single command, all occurrences of all entity types being transferred and to direct the output to an IDD module where it is stored as DDDL syntax.
INCLUDE allows the user to execute the DDDL syntax punched to an IDD module during a PUNCH operation, thereby generating the syntax used to complete the transfer.

This section contains the following topics:

Overview

Steps for Data Transfer

Example of Transferring Data Between Dictionaries

Completing the Data Transfer

Transferring in Batch Mode