Description

Object requests include the following calls:

• OS

• OV

• OW

These requests, based on a primary record, allow a user to traverse file relations to access information related to the primary record.

The OV and OW request types depend on rules defined in the object rule files:

%LAWDIR%\productline\systemcodesrc\systemcode.or

These files are compiled into a single file by SRGEN:

%LAWDIR%\productline\obj\OrMap

An OS call returns a list of OV and OW calls that a user can access. An OV call is a drill that accesses an OTM relation from the primary record on which the call is based. Therefore, a definition of an OV call indicates the OTM relation that will be traversed. The result of an OV call is a list of OS calls that will allow further traversals of subsequent relations, but are still based on the primary record.

An OW call is a drill that accesses either the primary file for a record or OTO relations from the record’s primary file. Thus the result of an OW drill will be data from the fields (primary and/or OTO related) that the OW rule defines.