abasslabels (ap_sla)

This is a help table that stores all version-control labels that have been entered for a subsystem with DBBUILD or update scripts generated by DBUPDGEN. The purpose is twofold:

1) To provide a translation from string to version numbers. E.g, the label L4.70.0100 will have major = 4, middle = 70 and minor = 100. The label V1.3 will yield major = 1, middle = 3 and minor = 0.

2) To check that for the same subsytstem you are not using labels with the same major/middle/minor, for instance both L4.00.0020 and G4.0.20.

There is an ss_label column in abasysobjects and abahistsysobjects and they permit ad hoc labels such as "AB1V", but labels for a subsystem must be on the form LetterMajor.Middle.Minor.

Normally you have no reason to meddle in this table.