Basic operations for managing the name space

The basic data management operations are used for managing the Name space and basic data types. These operations can be categorized as follows:

• Managing the directory structure
• Listing, renaming and deleting items in the name space
• Selecting items into frames
• Putting data into fields
• Handling classified data frames
• Conversions of the time format
• Managing matrix structures

• Managing directories
• Listing names in the name space
• Removing name entries
• Renaming name entries
• Copying data frames or fields
• Displaying the contents of data frames and fields
• Querying the vector lenght of a name entry
• Setting the contents of a data field
• Selecting fields into a data frame
• Selecting classes to a classified data frame
• Selecting items to frames
• Attaching a data frame to the end of another
• Handling classified data frames
• Creating a data field as a number series
• Converting fields of a data frame into a string field
• Conversion routines for time
• Matrices
  • The matrix structure
  • Frame - Matrix commands