The
ADBFILE statement enables you to specify an ADABAS file number and
optional password, cipher code, and database identifier for the ADABAS
file to be used when reading the access descriptor. If you specified
a NATURAL DDM using the DDM= statement in an access descriptor, then
the file number is supplied by the DDM and the ADBFILE statement is
not needed.
If you specified SECURITY=YES
in the access descriptor, you cannot change the values for the password
and cipher code in the view descriptor. However, if no values were
entered in the access descriptor, you can enter them in the view descriptor,
even if the SECURITY=YES statement has been issued.
is the ADABAS file
number of the file to be accessed. The ADABAS file number is a number
from 1 to the lower of 5,000 or the Association block size minus one.
It is assigned when the ADABAS files are created with the ADABAS ADACMP
utility.
is an ADABAS password,
which provides security protection at the file or data-field level,
or on the basis of a value at the logical-record level. The value
is not displayed as you enter it, and it is written to the access
descriptor in encrypted form.
is an ADABAS cipher
code, which is a numeric code for ciphering and deciphering data into
and from an ADABAS file. The value is not displayed as you enter
it, and it is written to the access descriptor in encrypted form.
Adabas-database identifier
is the ADABAS database
identifier (number) to be accessed. The database identifier is a
numerical value from 1 to 65,535 that is assigned to each ADABAS database.