A character string that defines the name of the Project. This is a mandatory parameter.

This is one or two digit number to be assigned to the Project. It must be unique (different from other Projects defined to the same Rulebase). Rulebase or Projects in the same work directory. The ID is used to name the clustering relationship indexes. If they are not unique, the clustering of one Project will overwrite the clustering relationship indexes of another Project with the same ID. This is a mandatory parameter.

A character string that specifies the name of the DCE Identity Table. If this parameter is omitted, then you must specify an otherwise optional

idt-definition

. For more information, see the

IDT Definition

section below.

An optional parameter used to set global options for all ID-Tables in this Project. Currently, the only valid value is

Compress-Method

, which is described in the

IDX Definition

section.

This is an optional text field that is used to describe the Project’s purpose.

DCE will create various files while processing some jobs. The

PATH

parameters can be used to specify where those files will be placed. DCE will use the path specified in the

DEFAULT-PATH

parameter. If

DEFAULT-PATH

has not been specified, the current directory will be used. It is valid to specify a value of "+" for the path. This represents the value associated with the environment variable

SSAWORKDIR

. This is especially recommended when running the Project remotely, ie. from a directory other than the

SSAWORKDIR

directory.

Optional path for the formatted data file

fmt.tmp

. Refer to the

Reformat Input Data

section.

The path for all index files except the Rulebase index (default name

rule.ndx

), which is always kept in the same directory as the Rulebase (default name

rule.db

).

The path to the index file created by the

CLUSTER

job.

The path to the index file created by the

CLUSTER/EXTRACT

job.

Optional path for the temporary sort data file

srt.tmp

.

DCE may create sort work files when sorting a large result set. These optional parameters control the placement of these files and override the directory given in

DEFAULT-PATH

.