Re: RE: LIBL limitation of 25 libraries

This is excactly what we do right now. I'm sorry if i was not clear enought in 
my previous explanation, i will give it another try.

We have several types of librairies:

Data library: They all start with the letter DATA and they contains the PF and 
LF for a particular company/year
EX: DATA001Y97  : data for company #001 for the year 97
We need at most 2 of theese at a time in the libary list

Program libraries: They have the format APPxx where xx = the application code 
(pay roll, production ...). They contains the part of the software that is 
language independant: RPG, CL (source and object). It also contains the sources 
of all other part of the software (DSPF, PRTF, menu ...)

Language libraries: They have the format APPxxLLL where xx = application code 
and LLL = Language code. It contains language related objects: message files, 
object of DSPF, PRTF, menu ... (The sources uses messages constant so only one 
source member is needed and it is stored in APPxx) 

Other libraries: QTEMP, QGPL

So, to be able to run an application, you need access to the data library, the 
application library and the language library.

Here is a complete example of the library list of an english and sweedish user 
who needs access to the same application for the same company:

English users:

QTEMP
QGPL
DATA001Y98            company 001  data for year 1998
APPIVENG                english componant of the IV (inventory) application
APPIV                        language independant componant of the IV 
application
APPSAENG               english componant of the SA (sales) application
APPSA                       language independant componant of the SA application

Sweedish user:

QTEMP
QGPL
DATA001Y98            company 001  data for year 1998
APPIVSWE                sweedish componant of the IV (inventory) application
APPIV                        language independant componant of the IV 
application
APPSASWE               sweedish componant of the SA (sales) application
APPSA                       language independant componant of the SA application

As you can see, the library list contains only the parts for one language

Denis Robitaille
Cascades inc.
Tel: 819-363-5187
DRobitaille@cascades.com

>>> "Stone, Brad V (TC)" <bvstone@taylorcorp.com> 11/27 2:05 pm >>>
Why wouldn't you use different job descriptions for each the English and
Sweedish users?  There's no need to have english libraries in a library list
for the sweedish.

Bradley V. Stone
Taylor Corporation - OASIS Programmer/Analyst   
bvstone@taylorcorp.com 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Denis Robitaille [SMTP:DRobitaille@cascades.com] 
> Sent: Friday, November 27, 1998 12:25 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com 
> Subject:      Re: LIBL limitation of 25 libraries
> 
> 
> 
> Denis Robitaille
> Cascades inc.
> Tel: 819-363-5187
> DRobitaille@cascades.com 
> 
> >>> Rob Marssdorf <Rob@cascade400.com> 11/27 11:52 am >>>
> >Can the job stream be broken up into multiple runs - say one for North
> >America, another for Europe?  Sounds like both could run at the same time
> >that way.
> 
> It is. In fact this setup allows us to run both english and sweddish on
> the same machine. The english users have the APP*ENG libraries in theire
> librairy list and the sweed users have the APP*SWE libraries in their.
> That is why we need 2 library per applications.
> 
> >If not, I think that if the processing program were to explicitly
> override
> >the files for each application to the appropriate library at run time,
> you
> >could bypass the library list issue - you're not doing an ADDLIBLE,
> you're
> >just pointing the file to the library location with the OVRDBF.
> 
> We would have to override message files, display files, printer files,
> panel group(for help), menus. I'am not even sure if all those are
> overidable. Also, this can add a lot of codes to ALL programs (Ex: clp pgm
> A call rpg pgm B that call rpg pgm C ... then all override must be coded
> in pgm A, maintenance hell). Also, when you explicitly use a library name,
> this makes things harder in test mode (you can not use the library list to
> access test object).
> 
> Overriding data files would save 2 entries and put my maximun number of
> application to 11
> 
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