James Reynolds asks:

> Can someone tell me what System Dictionary/iX is and
> some reasons why you would want it????

If you don't know specifically why you need it, I suspect you
don't want it.  For several years now HP has been officially
recommending (at least at SIGRAPID meetings) that users
NOT go to System Dictionary/iX unless it provides a feature
that you've got to have.  The default / recommended HP
Dictionary solution is the old reliable (but recently enhanced)
Dictionary/3000.  Dictionary/3000 and all the handy little
[log in to unmask]  utilities that come with it run as CM PROGs
(which of course you can run through OCT if you wish).  Within
the known limits, Dictionary/3000 does what it does pretty well.

Way back at Interex - Orlando 1988 or thereabouts (I think it
was), System Dictionary was presented as a step on the road
to a universal "data repository".  That road has of course been
buried by the shifting product development cycle sands for some
time now....

Ken Sletten