VSI Data Dictionary (VDD) V1.2-03

VSI OpenVMS x86-64 Version 9.2-3 or higher

VSI OpenVMS IA-64 Version 8.4-2L1 or higher

In addition, IA-64 systems must have the VSI RTL V9 or higher kit installed. Note that the VDD installation procedure does not verify that an appropriate VSI RTL kit is installed.

If an appropriate VSI RTL kit is not installed, VDD images will fail to activate and messages similar to the following will be displayed:

%DCL-W-ACTIMAGE, error activating image CXXL$LANGRTL
-CLI-E-IMGNAME, image file SYS$COMMON:[SYSLIB]CXXL$LANGRTL.EXE
-LOADER-E-BADSVINDX, symbol vector index is too large

Updated the repository database format and added repository compatibility checking when opening repositories.

Added support for ACMS menu definitions stored as CDD$MENU elements, enabling ADU REPLACE MENU and BUILD MENU operations.

Added support for additional Oracle CDD 4GL entity and relationship types, improving compatibility with layered products and migrated applications.

Added support for large dictionary elements exceeding 64 KB through the CDD callable interface, improving compatibility with products such as DECforms.

Improved repository access handling for applications that use multiple VDD contexts within the same process. VDD now supports sharing a single repository connection across multiple contexts.

Added support for single-node migrations through the VMU MIGRATE/SINGLE command.

Enhanced VDO syntax diagnostics. Syntax errors now identify the location of the error within the command or script instead of reporting a generic parse error.

Added support for command continuation prompts in VDO, allowing commands to be entered across multiple input lines.

Improved CDDL compatibility by supporting unnamed fields in DDL mode.

Added support for hyphens in COBOL condition names.

Improved logical-name handling in VDO record member lists.

Expanded the VDO Help information for DDL-related commands and operating modes.

Operations that did not specify an explicit version now correctly use the latest version instead of Version 1.

Corrected issues affecting CDD$SET_DEFAULT and CDD$SET_ANCHOR, improving support for nested dictionary paths and ensuring consistent use of CDD$TOP.

Fixed several issues in CDD$GET_ELEMENT, including output-length reporting, memory handling, and the retrieval of large dictionary elements.

Corrected ACL handling for empty access control lists, resolving access issues affecting some Datatrieve operations for non-privileged users.

Fixed repository access and locking issues that could result in duplicate element identifiers, repository access errors, or failures when multiple VDD contexts were used within the same process.

Corrected issues affecting Datatrieve SHOW DOMAINS, SHOW ALL, and records that contain nested STRUCTURE definitions.

Corrected VDD$ANCHOR handling used by Datatrieve and related applications.

Fixed an issue in COBOL record generation where fields containing both COMPUTED BY IF and BASED ON clauses could be generated incorrectly.

Corrected several VDO issues affecting record version selection, unnamed DDL fields, COBOL condition names containing hyphens, logical-name translation, and HELP command processing.

Improved VDO error reporting by providing detailed syntax diagnostics instead of generic parse errors.

Fixed an issue that prevented VDMU from correctly deleting CDD$MENU elements.

Corrected issues affecting ACMS menu creation, menu processing, and task definition operations.

Corrected DECforms extraction issues affecting large record definitions.

Improved VMU migration processing and corrected issues affecting /RESUME operations during large migrations.

Corrected an issue where installing over an earlier version of VDD with ACMS installed would cause the installation to fail.

Repositories created by earlier VDD releases cannot currently be opened or upgraded by VDD V1.2-03. Existing repositories must be recreated before use.

VDO does not currently support command abbreviations. Commands must be entered in their full form.

The VDO HELP system lists the SHOW ALL command despite this command not currently being supported.

The VDO DEFINE RECORD command does not support explicit member version references (for example, field;4). Record definitions always use the latest version of each member at the time the record is defined.

During COBOL generation, a field that has no COMPUTED BY IF clause of its own and is BASED ON a field defined with COMPUTED BY IF is generated as PIC X.

The CDD$DATABASE and DBM$SCHEMA generic entity types are not currently supported.

Concurrent write access to a repository remains limited. When multiple processes attempt to update the same repository simultaneously, database locking errors may occur. Retrying the operation after the conflicting update has completed typically resolves the issue.

When one VDD context has uncommitted updates to a repository, other contexts within the same process may receive access-denied errors when reading from that repository.

To use VDD, you will need to implement some changes into the scripts that were used with other dictionary management tools.

VSI Data Management Utility (VDMU) currently lacks some verbs that may be necessary for complete integration.