Forte UDS 5.1.8 Syntax

I am primarily a C# programmer with some java experience. We have an application that we purchased that uses Forte UDS 5.1.8. The syntax is easy to figure out but there is one thing that I have not been able to find documentation on. It is database or a structure that corresponds to the database. The syntax looks like this:
<tablename.columnname> = "whatever"
<tablename.columnname> = 1
numAVar = <tablename.columnname>
numOfRows = <tablename.count>
The < and > are part of the syntax.
Does anyone recognize this as being TOOL technology or is it possibly a part of a 3rd party preparser?
Thanks!

That was the only place in the documentation that I found that syntax which seemed to reference screen fields. However, we do not have any screens in forte. This software release is partly java/Websphere and partly Forte. The Websphere part handles all the HTML GUI and data storage while Forte provides for some additional backend processing yet to be converted to java.

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