5.3.3 APPX Application Design Manual

+ Chapter 1-1: Overview of Application Design
+ Chapter 1-2: Getting Started
+ Chapter 1-3: Data Dictionary
+ Chapter 1-4: Understanding Process Design
+ Chapter 1-5: Interprocess Communication
+ Chapter 1-6: Customizing Your Application
+ Chapter 1-7: The Documentation Facility
+ Chapter 1-8: Application Design Tools
+ Chapter 2-1: Data Dictionary Overview
+ Chapter 2-2: Data Dictionary Concepts
+ Chapter 2-3: Domains
+ Chapter 2-4: Files and Fields
+ Chapter 2-5: Work Fields
+ Chapter 3-1: Overview of APPX Processes
+ Chapter 3-2: Getting Started
+ Chapter 3-3: Process Definition
+ Chapter 3-4: Menu Processes
+ Chapter 3-5: Job Processes
+ Chapter 3-6: Input Processes
+ Chapter 3-7: Output Processes
+ Chapter 3-8: Update Processes
+ Chapter 3-9: Query Processes
+ Chapter 3-10: Inquiry Processes
+ Chapter 3-11: Status Processes
+ Chapter 3-12: Subroutine Processes
+ Chapter 3-13: Table Processes
+ Chapter 3-14: Automatic and Optional Children
+ Chapter 3-15: Using the Image Editor
+ Chapter 3-16: Using GUI Features of the Image Editor
+ Chapter 3-17: Using Event Points
+ Chapter 4-1: ILF Integration
+ Chapter 4-2: True/False Status Indicators
+ Chapter 4-3: Specifying Statements
+ Chapter 4-4: The ILF Editor
+ Chapter 4-5: The Appx ILF Debugger
+ Chapter 4-6: ILF Keyword Reference
- Chapter 4-7: Predefined Fields
+ Chapter 4-8: Runtime Subroutine's and Predefined Processes
+ Chapter 4-9: Appx Chart Director API

Chapter 4-7: Predefined Fields

Key to Table 4-7-1: Predefined Fields Attributes


 The following table specifies the attributes of each APPX predefined field (PDF). The following items are included in the table:

The PDF name, which is the exact name of the PDF as you would specify it in a statement.

The size of the PDF.

The sign, indicating if the PDF is a signed value.

The storage type, or how the PDF value is stored.

The IPC characteristics, provided in the following three columns:

Pass, the extent to which the PDF value is passed to other processes.

Rec, the extent to which the PDF value is received by other processes.

Share, the extent to which the PDF value is shared with parent processes.

The following abbreviations are used to describe the IPC Characteristics:

sub, communicated with subprocess invocations.

manual, must be manually communicated with statements.

prohib, communication is prohibited.

rcv, communicated with any fully or partially receptive process.

rel/sub, communicated with all subprocess and related invocations.

all, communicated with all invocations regardless of the receptivity level.

Modifiable?, tells whether the PDF value can be changed with statements.

Initial value?, (how the PDF is initialized). When this column contains an asterisk (*), the PDF initial value is controlled by values entered in system administration or at runtime by a user.

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