Re: SAVLIBL, MAPICS, RSTLIBL ideas

[sjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

We don't handle this automatically upon exiting.  What we did is create a
simple command that we enter to re-set the libarary list back to our
default.
Maybe you can modify the MAPICS command to set the library list back on
exiting.

Steve Jones


                                                                           
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We have noticed in the programming department an annoying habit of MAPICS
whereby when we start MAPICS from a command line, then exit MAPICS, our
library list was not returned to what it was before we entered MAPICS.
This
tends to be a headache since we do our development on the production box,
and if we're ever helping a user with production data and forget to reset
the library list after exiting MAPICS, well, that's a bad day I'd like to
avoid.

I have found a SAVLIBL & RSTLIBL tool elsewhere on the midrange.com lists,
but wanted to know how others implemented this.  I'd rather not modify the
AMZPAA program, but am not adverse to modifying the MAPICS command to call
a
"wrapper" CL that does the SAVLIBL, then CALLs AMZPAA, then RSTLIBL.
Here's
the code for the new CPP:

  PGM        PARM(&APPID &ENDES &MNOP1 &MNOP2 +
                     &MNOP3 &EXITA)

      DCL        &APPID   TYPE(*CHAR)  LEN(1)
      DCL        &ENDES   TYPE(*CHAR)  LEN(2)
      DCL        &MNOP1   TYPE(*CHAR)  LEN(2)
      DCL        &MNOP2   TYPE(*CHAR)  LEN(2)
      DCL        &MNOP3   TYPE(*CHAR)  LEN(2)
      DCL        &EXITA   TYPE(*CHAR)  LEN(1)

      SAVLIBL

      Call       AMZPAA  Parm(&APPID &ENDES +
                   &MNOP1 &MNOP2 &MNOP3 &EXITA)

      RSTLIBL

  ENDPGM

These are the same parameters that are used by AMZPAA.  Does anyone see any
problems doing this that I'm not seeing?  I have tested it by CRTDUPOBJ'ing
the MAPICS command to MAPICS2 in my library, changing the MAPICS2 command
to
use my new CPP, and it works fine.

It only saves up to 25 libraries.  Does MAPICS utilize the new 250-library
limit in the LIBL?  I don't think it would be a big deal to enhance the
tool
to handle it.

tia,
db

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