The Generator: ETOTMAIN

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The Generator: ETOTMAIN

The generator (ETOTMAIN) is a transparency program that does the following:

Translates Total DDL into CA IDMS/DB DDL (schema and subschema descriptions)
Generates a customized load module (ETOTLOAD)
Generates a customized table (ETOTTBL) that defines the database to the runtime interface

The following table describes input to the generator.

Input	Description
Total DDL	Defines the entire Total database being converted
Control statements that you prepare	Supply information about the CA IDMS/DB database being created
Loader (ETOTLOAD) skeleton containing source COBOL statements	Reads unloaded Total data and loads the CA IDMS/DB database
Runtime control table (ETOTTBL) skeleton	Creates source Assembler statements that provide interface information about the Total database referenced by Total application programs

Equivalent Total and CA IDMS/DB Data Structures

The following diagrams are of a sample Total database and the corresponding CA IDMS/DB database. Note that the CUSTOMER and CUSTOMER-ORDER CA IDMS/DB records correspond to the Total master file CUST and the CUOR variable file. Synonyms are provided to take advantage of the longer names permitted under CA IDMS/DB.

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