FIXDB23

Program to update 4.5xx databases for use with 4.6xx releases. The database remains compatible with 4.5xx. This program runs with rollback logging disabled, so make sure you ahve a copy of your database in case anything goes wrong and you need to restore your database and rerun FIXDB23.

You can also use this program against a 4.6xx database if you want to adopt a new standard form for names

Command Tail	Description
−SYSTEM	Supply this (with -DB SYSTEM) to run against the system database
−KEY	Makes extra checks on key fields to fix earlier bug in MAKEDB
−MAPS	Reconvert maps from 4.500
−FIXMAPS	Correct problems caused by bugs in MAPEDIT
−CCNAMES	Convert dictionary and QAB names to camel case (REC_NAME to recName)
−LCNAMES	Convert dictionary and QAB names to lower case (REC_NAME to rec_name)
−MCNAMES	Convert dictionary and QAB names to mixed case (REC_NAME to RecName)
−UCNAMES	Convert dictionary and QAB names to upper case (recName or rec_name or RecName to REC_NAME)
−NOEMBEDDED	Create overlapping controls instead of embedded fields
−NOAUTO	Ignore automatically generated alignment characters in 4.500 maps
−NOBOXES	(From 4.618) Remove 4.5xx box characters from converted maps
−SMARTEN	Automatically convert dialogs to 3D appearance
−SMARTENMORE	(From 4.618) Similar to -SMARTEN but works on maps that may not be dialogs - may be useful for databases designed for text based systems.
−SMARTENMORE	Similar to -SMARTEN but works on maps that may not be dialogs - may be useful for databases designed for text based systems.
−QAB	Restricts name case conversion options to working only on QAB name table.
−DD	Restricts name case conversion options to working only on database name table.

You can specify both -QAB and -DD to convert just table field and QAB names. Without either option all type S fields in the base dictionary will be converted, e.g. Report Names, Printer names etc.