Re: Rebuilding V8.2 BPCS Literal (message) Database

We have used this in an earlier version of BPCS.

Warning: When we got patches updates releases etc. and new versions of BPCS,
it was not unusual for the SSAZ03 to be totally replaced with a new version
with additional messages added by SSA/Infor.

Thus, we needed a SEPARATE member with JUST our messages, text (we use
different letter prefixes to avoid collision with vanilla naming), and have
a CL to merge them into whatever new replacement comes with later updates,
and know how to handle when our stuff is not addition, but change the BPCS
text.

Failure to plan this properly meant that every time a new release installed,
it wiped out all the stuff we had installed, unless we posted our additions
through
(a) OUR separate place
(b) batch process to refresh combination of original & our additions.

Contemporary versions of BPCS may have dropped this gotcha.

We had SSA01 SSAZ02 SSAZ03 for 3 kinds of message member contents:
Error messages vanilla
Literals (text on screens & reports)
Our additions that are other than the above.

Extra layer of complexity if you have multi-language implemented.

-
Al Mac

-----Original Message-----
From: bpcs-l-bounces+macwheel99=wowway.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bpcs-l-bounces+macwheel99=wowway.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Arnie Flangehead
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 4:50 PM
To: bpcs-l
Subject: [BPCS-L] Rebuilding V8.2 BPCS Literal (message) Database

Hi All

In V8.2 BPCS there's a utility to maintain literals (e.g. the headings
on display screens), which underneath the covers is using *MSGF
SSAZ03, but it also has its own files built over the message file to
enable advanced features like search and replace, etc.

If you maintain a message using this utility your changes will be
immediately visible, but if you update SSAZ03 directly, the changes
will not appear in the utility till the database is rebuilt.

I want to update messages in a batch process using the CHGMSGD, but I
don't want to confuse other users/developers who might try to access
them via the BPCS utility. Therefore I want to also run the database
update in batch. The program appears to be SYS709[C], but I don't know
what the parameters are (I've tried with the obvious library, file and
vice versa). The programs are shipped without source and have no
observability data included so cannot be viewed or debugged.

Has anyone faced and solved this problem, or have a way to figure out
the parameters?