In message <003d01cab415$cf0a92d0$6d1fb870$@net>, Wyell Grunwald 
<[log in to unmask]> writing at 18:21:48 in his/her local time 
opines:-
>Sorry, that I was not clearer in my question.  I am NOT changing the order
>of items inside datasets, just the order of the datasets in the database,
>and sorting the items in the database !
>
>I want to change the order of the items and datasets in a turboimage
>database using ADAGER (of course) !  Does anyone know for sure if COGNOS
>Powerhouse (PDL, QUICK, QUIZ, QTP) uses internal numbers for
>items/datasets
>in their compiled code, which would cause this shuffling to be a
>disaster ?
>Does one have to re-compile the dictionaries, and other code ?
>
>Wyell Grunwald

Well; if you recompiled the dictionary, what would have changed?
It does not use an Image database to check that you have got the 
dictionary right.

Does the Dictionary contain any of the internal item/dataset numbers?
Maybe it *can*, but mine never did, just strictly text descriptions of 
datasets, datanames, keys, and so on.

And then, if you recompiled the Cognos code, what would have changed?
Again, it does not refer to any Image databases at compilation time to 
check the accuracy of what it is being told.

I don't normally trust pure reason as a way of figuring these things 
out, but the conclusion seems inescapable.

Unless someone knows that you *do* have to give Cognos a sample database 
to sniff, to check its dictionaries and code?

I guess there might be a utility that, given a database, will sniff it 
and generate a dictionary. But that's a different issue.

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