Frank Nagy after Mark Bixby:

>I have Business Report Writer. I use SDUTIL when I change
>the structures of our TurboImage data bases = very rarely.
>The Business Report Writes is unable to use the System
>Dictionary, ......

Mark came back and clarified:

>Different SDUTIL!  The one I was talking about is for
>Subsystem Dump, as explained at:

I'm going to add a brief continuation to what Frank thought the
thread was on.  Frank continued:

>It is cumbersome, is not it? The QueryCalc uses a simpler
>method to extact the database structures.

Yup.

>We have Transact/V, but we do not use it because we got it
>too late, when we had written the user interface in Pascal/V.

If there are other users out there on MPE/iX who are still running
Transact/V in CM on their 900 series boxes and still doing any
kind of even semi-serious development, I hope that look at going
to NM Transact/iX.  The productivity enhancement to be gained
from just getting NM Trandebug/iX is significant.

>Transact uses SD to handle the form files, too.

Just to make sure there is no confusion:  Transact can in fact
use System Dictionary.  But it's at least a couple years ago now
that HP recommended that unless there was some reason you
HAD to go to System Dictionary, stay with Dictionary/V.  Even
though Dictionary/V has some limitations, it is easier to use
and less complicated than System Dictionary....  Which reminds
me that after all these years we still don't have the ~ universal
"repository" that HP was talking about some years back... Oh,
well, I don't have time to get off on that subject today........

Ken Sletten