Command Line Utilities

Temenos application framework contains a variety of utilities, which provide an alternative interface to operating system commands, while there are other utilities that enable or disable certain jBASE features. This guide describes the various tools, commands and utilities used by jBASE.

Customising jBASE Commands Output

It is possible to modify the output characteristics of the WHERE, LISTU and SHOW-ITEM-LOCKS utility programs by creating a subroutine, which is accessible when the program is called. The name of this fixed subroutine is JBCUserCustomiseDisplay. This section describes how you can define and call this subroutine.

jBASE Editor

The jBASE Editor (jED) editor is a full screen, context sensitive, screen editor designed specifically for ease of use and learning. It is the preferred editing tool for the jBASE operating environment and the jBASE BASIC programs.

jBASE Profiling

This section describes the new jBASE 4.1 mechanisms for controlling certain profiling tools.

LIBUTILS

The libutils shared library enables you to code terminal independent code to handle keyboard input.

jBASE Independent Metrics Integration (JIMI)

This section describes Event Driven Metrics (EDM) and Source Quality Metrics (SQM).

Locking

This section explains the working of two commands CLEAR-ITEM-LOCKS and SHOW-ITEM-LOCKS. These locking mechanisms allow you to view and clear locks from a specific file.

Windows Telnet

Telnet is an application protocol used on the Internet or local area network to provide a bidirectional interactive text-oriented communication facility using a virtual terminal connection. jBASE is supplied with a Windows telnet server to enable you to telnet into a windows server.

jBASE Tools

jBASE is a Database Management System comprising development tools, middleware and a multi-dimensional database. This section describes the tools used in jBASE.