5.1 Argument Summary

DEFGEN accepts the following arguments.

Argument Description
EXCLUDESYSTEM | INCLUDESYSTEM 

Instructs DEFGEN to omit (EXCLUDESYSTEM) or include (INCLUDESYSTEM) the NonStop system name from the files and tables for which definitions are being generated.

EXPANDDDL 

Supplies options to manipulate output for Enscribe record definitions.

NCHARCOMPATIBILITY 

Sets the datatype to 0 from 2 for multibyte nchar and 64 from 66 for multibyte nvarchar.

RECORDNAMEPROMPTING 

Supplies the name of an existing record definition to use when generating a definition for a new table.

FORMAT LEVEL

This is only to be used when the definition file produced will be used for the TARGETDEFS of an OpenSys Extract to map from another database to NSK.