• Notices
• Preface
  • Audience for this Guide
  • What is covered in this Guide
  • What is new in Version 7
  • Naming protocol
  • What you should know to use this guide
  • Glossary
  • Conventions used in this Guide
  • What this Guide Contains
  • Additional tableBASE references
  • VTS Manager References
  • Customer Support
  • Training and Professional Services
  • About DataKinetics
• The Batch Utility Programs
• TBEXEC (DK1TEXEC) commands
  • Command summary
  • Interpreting command parameters
  • Parameter descriptions
  • CHANGE command
    • Option 1: change the definition of a table
    • Option 2: change an Alternate Index definition
    • CHANGE command use
  • CLEAR command
    • CLEAR
    • CLEAR command use
  • COPY command
    • Option 1: copy a table generation
    • Option 2: copy a table (all generations)
    • Option 3: copy a library
    • COPY command use
  • DEFINE command
    • Option 1: initialize a new tableBASE library
    • Option 2: define a new table
    • Option 3: create an Alternate Index definition
    • DEFINE command use
  • DELETE command
    • Option 1: delete a single table generation
    • Option 2: delete all generations of a table
    • DELETE command use
  • EXPAND library command
    • EXPAND command use
  • EXPORT command
    • Option 1: export an entire library
    • Option 2: export a specific table
    • EXPORT command use
  • IMPORT command
    • IMPORT command use
  • LOAD command
    • LOAD command use
  • PRINT command
    • Option 1: list directory
    • Option 2: print table information
    • Option 3: print table contents
    • PRINT command use
  • RENAME command
    • RENAME command use
  • SET command
    • SET command use
  • UNLOAD command
    • UNLOAD command use
  • UPDATE command
    • UPDATE command use
• Using TBEXEC (DK1TEXEC)
  • JCL to run TBEXEC
    • Create a new tableBASE library
    • EXPORT and IMPORT a tableBASE library
    • UNLOAD a table
    • LOAD a table
  • Error diagnosis
    • Command interpretation errors
    • Command processing errors
    • TBLBASE processing errors
  • Report descriptions
    • TBMSG report
    • TBRPT report
  • Error and audit messages described
• Table printing utility: TBPRINT (DK1TPTBL)
  • Completion codes
  • Keyword parameters
    • Keywords with assigned values
    • Keywords without assigned values
  • Formatted print examples
    • Print table using defaults
    • Print with row identification
    • Print with row truncation
    • Print with rows continuing on next page
    • JCL
• View printing utility: TBDEFPRT (DK1TVWPR)
  • Input
  • Output
  • General syntax rules for input
  • Keyword parameters
    • FROMDDN
    • FROMDSN
    • SEQ
    • SELECT
    • EXCLUDE
    • PASSWORD
    • JCL
• Generating data definitions: TBCOBFD and DK1TCSTR
  • Generating COBOL copybooks
    • Coding conventions
    • Using TBCOBFD
  • Generating C/C++ structures
    • Using DK1TCSTR
• Table comparison utility: TBCOMP (DK1TCOMP)
  • Using difference files with TBEXEC
• Library conversion utilities
• Messages
  • TBEXEC error messages
  • tableBASE messages
  • TBEXEC and library conversion messages
• TBOPT dataset coding