Product Overview

Advanced Data Dictionary System (ADDS) is the repository on enterprise server systems. You can use ADDS to centrally store, define, and retrieve the data definitions that describe the data structures within an application. ADDS eases the burden of creating and maintaining your data descriptions. You can use ADDS to store database descriptions for Enterprise Database Server, SDF Plus screen format information, and a broad range of other enterprise data.

With ADDS, you can achieve improved levels of control, security, documentation, definition consistency, and personnel productivity. ADDS enables you to define and maintain the overall information environment without using a conventional data definition language (DDL). Utilities for repository reporting and general operations are incorporated and are supported in a menu-driven fashion through the interface.

General Features

ADDS provides an interface that enables you to describe all physical and logical aspects of your database. You can define Enterprise Database Server structures with a high level of integrity and consistency.

ADDS reporting capabilities offer complete documentation. Default and custom reports provide summary and detailed information on data elements, database definitions, and the tracking of COBOL74 and COBOL85 data items. The use of keywords helps associate related entities into common groups for clarity in documentation.

ADDS supports a testing environment where a database is kept in testing mode or production mode for security purposes. After a new database has been thoroughly tested, the production version is placed into historical status and the test version placed into production status, which prevents implementation of a premature database definition. Comprehensive security and access control is kept on a centralized basis. Access is granted to data elements, data records, data sets, and databases by the data dictionary administrator (DDA) for authorized individuals only.

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