Re: Bpcs standards -- BPCS-L

Hello,

XRF works if you have the program  RPG source on your system and the
parameters are set up properly. If you have ADK and
the AS/SET repository, you can generate the source en masse if you do not
already have the RPG source. However XRF will not find a file or field
reference if the only reference to the file or field in the program is done
via an SQL statement,
as XRF doesn't read the embedded SQL statements in the RPG source. This
doesn't matter in releases such as BPCS CD, but does matter in V6.x as a lot
of SQL was used in those releases. However, it is still a useful product at
V6, depending upon the information you want from it.

In V8 the product XRF was replaced by a new Microsoft Access based offering,
which is posted
on the OGS web site, rather than being delivered with BPCS. This was done
for 2 reasons. First, since SSA GT
stopped shipping source with the release it was difficult for customers to
use XRF (you would have to mass compile ADK definitions into source and then
run a build of the database) and secondly, for
customers on other platforms (Unix and NT) an XRF product reading RPG source
didn't
seem too terribly helpful. This new cross reference does read SQL
statements, as the tool which builds the database is reading the ADK
definitions, rather than RPG source files.

The new XRF for V8 can be found on OGS under Product Support ->Technical
Documentation. Then
search on V8 'General Technical Documentation'. It was built over the base
release of V8.

Hope this clarifies things regarding the XRF product.

Thanks

Genyphyr Novak
SSA GT
----- Original Message -----
From: "Clare Holtham" <Clare.Holtham@btinternet.com>
To: <BPCS-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 4:27 PM
Subject: Re: Bpcs standards


> Dean,
> XRF doesn't work in V6...
> Clare
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <DAsmussen@AOL.COM>
> To: <BPCS-L@midrange.com>
> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 6:35 AM
> Subject: Re: Bpcs standards
>
>
> > Sans,
> >
> > In a message dated 6/27/01 9:21:03 AM US Eastern Standard Time,
> > sans59@hotmail.com writes:
> >
> > > I have just joined an organisation as an RPG/400 programmer. My
> > organisation
> > > uses BPCS system. I do not have any training or ideas as to how BPCS
> works
> > or
> > > its standards. I am on the verge of losing the job as i am not so well
> > versed
> > > with BPCS standards.
> > <<snip>>
> >
> > Have you (or anyone else that responded to this question, for that
matter)
> > actually _READ_ this statement?  "I am on the verge of losing the job as
i
> am
> > not so well versed with BPCS standards."  Sorry, but _THAT_ is the
biggest
> > load of horse hockey that I've heard in quite some time.  As one who has
> > spent a great deal of time at a great many clients supposedly enforcing
> BPCS
> > standards (but rarely having the _authority_ to do so), I can surely
tell
> you
> > that there is not a _SINGLE_ person I've seen over the past ten years in
> any
> > danger of losing their job over not following standards.  Unless you're
> > working for SSA/GT itself, which I know for a fact hands you more
> standards
> > documentation when you walk in the door than you can possibly absorb in
a
> > _MONTH_, you must _SURELY_ be misstating this question.
> >
> > Sorry to sound so callous but, either your employer is an idiot, this
> > question was phrased incorrectly, or you misrepresented yourself as a
BPCS
> > "expert" to them when you were hired.  The latter seems far more likely
to
> > me.  Fortunately, many people learned about the "DOC" menu from this
> thread.
> > Hopefully, a few more will check out "XRF"...
> >
> > Dean Asmussen
> > Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
> > Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
> > E-mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com
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