Restriction: This topic applies only when the AppMaster Builder AddPack has been installed, and applies only to Windows platforms.
Before you generate an AppMaster Builder application that uses one or more data views, you must first generate the data views
referenced by the application. You can generate one data view at a time, or generate multiple data views at one time. Each
time you generate, AMB creates a log file in the
Job Queue.
IMS and VSAM generation
When AMB generates a data view that contains IMS and/or VSAM data source, it creates a corresponding DDI symbols file for
the data view in the project\group
DDISYMB subdirectory. The DDI symbols file describes the data view in a format used by the AMB precompiler and other AMB components.
SQL generation
Just as it does for IMS and VSAM data sources, AMB creates a corresponding DDI symbols file in the project\group
DDISYMB subdirectory for each data view. In addition, for each SQL DDL source and SQL Object that contains database and COBOL descriptions
of each table or view, the data view generation process also generates a record description copybook. Generated copybooks
are stored in the project\group
COPYLIB subdirectory.
Note: You have the option to set your AppMaster Builder preferences to generate data views using fully qualified table names. The
default is to generate non-qualified table names. For more information, see the
To set AppMaster Builder preferences topic and the
Data View reference topic.