Using Vision Utilities
This chapter describes the utility functions that Vision provides to help you develop applications. These functions include:
• Calling the operating system or an Ingres tool directly from Vision
• Examining the definitions of tables that you use in your visual queries
• Running a report about an application
• Reconciling your visual queries with any changes to your table definitions
• Cleaning up deleted applications and frames from your disk
• Using alternate sets of global constants
As described in this chapter, most of these functions are accessed by selecting the Utilities operation available on several Vision windows.
Vision also provides a LockStatus utility that reveals any locks that other developers are holding on your applications. This utility is described in detail in the Managing Locks in Vision section of
Using Vision or ABF in a Multi-Developer Environment.
Note: Be aware that if your system goes down or you abort a Vision session, Vision regards you as a new user when you start it up again. In this situation, Vision shows you as holding a lock from your original session. You must use the LockStatus utility to clear this lock as described in
Managing Locks in Vision or ABF.