Specifies the file number of the ADABAS file to be accessed.
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Optional statement
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| Applies to: |
access descriptor or view descriptor
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| Interacts with: |
DDM, SECURITY
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ADBFILE (NUMBER | NUM = Adabas-file-number
PASSWORD | PW =
Adabas-password
CIPHER|CC = Adabas-cipher-code
DBID = Adabas-database-identifier);
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The ADBFILE statement allows you to specify an ADABAS file number
and optional password, cipher code, and database identifier for the ADABAS
file to be used when reading the access descriptor. If you specified a NATURAL
DDM using the DDM= statement in an access descriptor, then the file number
is supplied by the DDM and the ADBFILE statement is not needed.
If you specified SECURITY=YES in the access descriptor, you cannot change
the values for the password and cipher code in the view descriptor. However,
if no values were entered in the access descriptor, you can enter them in
the view descriptor, even if the SECURITY=YES statement has been issued.
- Number
- is the ADABAS file number of the file to be accessed. The
ADABAS file number is a number from 1 to 255 that is assigned when the ADABAS
files are created with the ADABAS ADACMP utility.
- Password
- is an ADABAS password,
which provides security protection at the file or data-field level, or on
the basis of a value at the logical-record level. The value is not displayed
as you enter it, and it is written to the access descriptor in encrypted form.
- Cipher Code
- is an ADABAS cipher
code, which is a numeric code for ciphering and deciphering data into and
from an ADABAS file. The value is
not displayed as you enter it, and it is written to the access descriptor
in encrypted form.
- DBID
- is the ADABAS database
identifier (number) to be accessed. The database identifier is a numerical
value from 1 to 255 that is assigned to each ADABAS database.
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