System Catalogs
ABF stores and maintains information about your applications in the Ingres system catalogs. These are tables in the same database as the application. See the Database Administrator Guide for a full description of these catalogs:
ii_objects
Contains a row with the following information about each application object (such as frames, forms, and reports) in the database:
• name
• owner
• object ID
• object class
• creation date
• modification date (this date is changed through a field on the Edit a User Frame Definition window).
ABF shares this catalog with Vision.
ii_encodings
Stores 4GL frames and procedures, forms, encoded in an Intermediate Language (IL). ABF uses the IL code when running an application with the Go operation. ABF shares this catalog with Vision and OpenROAD.
ii_locks
Manages concurrent user access to applications and application components. ABF shares this catalog with Vision and OpenROAD.
ii_longremarks
Contains the Long Remark text that you have specified for any application components. ABF shares this catalog with Vision and OpenROAD.
ii_abfclasses
Contains information about the attributes of ABF record types. ABF shares this catalog with Vision.
ii_abfobjects
Contains ABF-specific information (such as source code file and linker symbol) about ABF objects stored in the ii_objects catalog. ABF shares this catalog with Vision.
ii_abfdependencies
Describes the relationships between database objects (such as reports and forms) used in ABF applications. ABF shares this catalog with Vision.
ii_sequence_values
Used by the 4GL sequence_value function to generate surrogate keys for new rows in a table. ABF shares this catalog with Vision.