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Using an Existing Database Commonly, application developers will create HP ALLBASE/4GL applications to access existing HP TurboIMAGE/iX databases. Developers can load the definitions of the HP TurboIMAGE/iX data sets and data items into HP ALLBASE/4GL to avoid redefining these items in the HP ALLBASE/4GL application. To load the HP TurboIMAGE/iX schema file information into the HP ALLBASE/4GL application system files (S-files), HP ALLBASE/4GL provides several upload utilities. These upload utilities can also be used to load administrator database definitions. Upload Utilities The HP4TUPLD utility converts information about data items, data entries and data sets contained in an HP TurboIMAGE/iX schema to HP ALLBASE/4GL field specifications, record layouts and data set definitions. The converted data can be printed to the screen or redirected to a file. The HP4TUPLD utility can also be used to convert database definition information, which can be used to define databases within the HP ALLBASE/4GL administrator application. The output from HP4TUPLD can be easily added to the HP ALLBASE/4GL S-files using a utility called HP4ATOS. When you run HP4ATOS, these items are added to the S-files for the application. During this procedure, any clashes between existing HP ALLBASE/4GL names and HP TurboIMAGE/iX names are resolved, and HP TurboIMAGE/iX characters that are illegal in HP ALLBASE/4GL names will be converted. For more information about using HP4TUPLD, refer to the HP TurboIMAGE/iX Interface section of the HP HP ALLBASE/4GL Developer Reference Manual. For information about using the HP4ATOS utility, refer to the Utilities section of the HP ALLBASE/4GL Developer Reference Manual.