[Stackoverflow] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] For Progress OpenEdge is there a way to programmatically generate a data dictionary detailed table report?

[Troy Niemeier]

I've developed a lookup utility website to take the detailed table reports that the Data Dictionary produces, to parse that output into useable JSON data with PHP, and then to then re-display it in a nice tabular form with JS/HTML/CSS.

I'm seeking to automate the generation of the detailed table definition files in such a way that it can be scheduled to run with cron, the resulting definition file can be copied to my website's directory, and it can to post-processed there. But, I'm not finding any CLI commands for the data dictionary.

Is there any way to do it outside of the terminal GUI, like this documentation demonstrates? Progress Documentation

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