Synon Question Paper-2

1. What’s the preferred sequence of generation for the following Access Paths:

a. RTV with Key 1 and Key2

b. RSQ with Key 1, Key 2 and Key 3 and some virtual fields on it

c. RTV with Key 1, Key 2 and Selection/Omission Criteria

d. RTV with key 1, 2 with ALL virtual fields on it

Justify your recommendation.

2. Look at the following relationships

Customer Known by Customer ID

Customer has Customer Name
Address Owned By Customer
Address Known by Address Seq No.
Address Has Primary Address Flag

What type of access path can be used for creating a display file (DSPFIL) of all
addresses, sorted in the order of Customer Name?

3. What kind of functionality can be built on PHY access paths?

4. How is selection and omission implemented in QRY access path? How about the
sort order?

5. How does Synon use the logical file and physical file created as QRY access path
auxiliaries

6. Comment on why there should not be keys in a PHY access path?

7. How do you implement One to None relationship for Extended By relationship?

8. Why can’t I build an EDTTRN using SPN access path that includes virtual fields?

9. How can you generate Access paths in SQL? How do you do that for ALL access
paths in the model, going forward?

10. How can I ensure that I generate a physical file/logical file in Synon, to always
share its Open Data Path?
11. What types of access paths do not allow change of the access path maintenance
method from *IMMED to *REBLD/*DLY

12. What kind of scenarios are suitable for *REBLD access path maintenance?

13. What’s the advantage of dropping virtual fields from default RTV access path?

14. What do you mean by virtualizing the virtual fields? Provide an example.

15. How can you create an access path that contains a subset of fields in the file?

16. What’s access path trimming all about?

17. Can I file have more than one UPD access path? Why would you want to define
one, anyway?

18. What happens if you change a reference access path for a relationship for an
access path?

19. Say, you have a file and you are adding two additional fields to it. Do they
automatically appear on the underlying logicals? If so, how can you prevent that?

20. You just added a SPN access path on Order Header file. What do you do next to
see data from the two underlying files?

21. What is the precondition for deleting an access path?