Using Ingres Commands

This chapter describes each Ingres command. Commands are listed in alphabetical order.

abf Command—Invoke Applications-By-Forms

The abf command invokes Applications-By-Forms (ABF), a forms-based interface for creating forms applications.

The abf command has the following format:

abf dbname |vnode::dbname[/server_class] applname [-w] [+wopen] [-5.0]
[-uusername] [-Ggroupid]

• dbname

  Specifies the name of the database, and the vnode and server_class, if required, as described in Standard Flags and Parameters.

• applname

  Specifies the name of an ABF application. If omitted, ABF prompts for the name of the application.

• -w

  Causes the procedure names of an application to be checked for conflicts with system function names.

• +wopen

  Generates warnings if ABF detects statements that are not compatible with OpenSQL.

• -5.0

  Causes 4GL to be invoked in 5.0 compatibility mode.

• -uusername

  Specifies the effective user for the session, as described in Standard Flags and Parameters. Files that are created by ABF when using this flag are not owned by username, but by the user actually running the ABF process.

• -Ggroupid

  Specifies a group identifier, as described in Standard Flags and Parameters.

  On VMS, enclose this parameter in double quotation marks ("Ggroupid").