OMBRETRIEVE

Purpose

Retrieve metadata of a component.

Prerequisites

Can be in any context. Component to retrieve can be specified by either absolute or relative path.

Syntax

retrieveCommand =  OMBRETRIEVE "fco_type" "fco_name" { "sco_type" 
          "sco_name" } ( "getPropertiesClause" | "getSCOClause" )
     getPropertiesClause =  GET PROPERTIES "(" "propertyNameList" ")"
     getSCOClause =  GET [ ( REF | REFERENCE ) [ "qualifier" ] ] "sco_type" [ AT
           POSITION "pos" ]
     propertyNameList =  "propertyName" { "," "propertyName" }
     propertyName =  "UNQUOTED_STRING"

Parameters

retrieveCommand

Specify the component from which to retrieve metadata.

fco_type

The type of the component.

fco_name

The physical name of the component in single quotes.

getPropertiesClause

Retrieve properties of an object.

getSCOClause

Retrieve a list of child object names of a given type.

qualifier

Specify which reference to set, if there are more than one pointing to the same type.

propertyNameList

A list of property names.

propertyName

An unquoted string representing the name of a property.

See Also

OMBCREATE

OMBALTER