Re: OVRMSGF & Literal BPCS

From Al Macintyre

Thanks Ambekar

I had to read IBM help several times to understand which should be TO and 
which should be FROM - it is almost counter intuitive

What we are trying to do is relabel some fields so that without any 
re-compiling of inquiry programs or reports, various literals will now have 
substitute text such as 
Qty per Carton
Pro Bill #
Test Board
Weight per 1000
# of wires

Thus we do this in the SSAZ03 literals message file ... we do have a message 
file for new error messages added by our programs added to the BPCS 
collection.
  
>  Here is what I suggest.  
>  When you receive new message files from SSA, 
>  you can run MRGMSGF command to merge the new message id's 
>  to the old message file.  
>  By doing this you are always safe since your message file at top of the 
library
>  list and contains new messages included.  (You always keep a copy of new 
> message file at base library).
>  
>  If you are changing standard message id's of SSAZ* files 
> you can prevent these in future.   
> Adopt a new strategy to add new message id's to message files.  
> For e.g., you can use literal constants in SSAZ01 messages 
> and error messages in SSAZ02 message files.  
> For message id's you can give something like 'xx00001'
>  where 'xx' represents you company name or something else.

Al Macintyre  ©¿©
http://www.cen-elec.com MIS Manager Programmer & Computer Janitor
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