Re: Change Non Observable to Observable?

At 05:06 AM 10/13/98 -0700, you wrote:
>We just ordered our new 620.  We currently have a F45 running an older
>version of First Coast's Hospital Information System.  I have found three
>non-observable programs.  They show a window in GL applications where the
>user can select the company, or select the period and account to run a
>program against.  They are used, one of them frequently.
>
>To recompile them, you have to run a BLDWNDPGM command, for which we do not
>have the source.  Running this command still results in a non observable
>program.  We servered relations with First Coast several years ago, and I
>understand it was not ended in a friendly manner.
>
>Short of rebuilding a front end for the GL programs, is there a way to make
>these programs observable?  Maybe there is no way to do this, but I have
>come to expect miracles from this list.
>
You cannot turn an unobservable program into observable.  If it is CL,
possibly you can do a RTVCLSRC.  However, your note causes me to conclude
that it recreates the programs from source, and if you have the source on
your system, you can recreate the programs from that.

Al




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