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  3. July 2006

Re: Do you still use *MSGF exclusively?

Some applications use it, such as BPCS support for users in foreign languages.

Suppose you have same data base software in a factory in Mexico.
The people there see the help text and messages in Spanish.
The workers in USA see all the same stuff in English.
How this is done, is there is a copy of the *MSGF, help text, etc, in a separate library in Spanish, Portuguese, French, whatever languages needed, then the library list has the non-English version substituted for the English version.
We have modifications Yes ... messages we add, go in a separate *MSGF than the generic collection.
This means that in a multi-linqual environment, we only need to have translations for our modifications. Within the BPCS "security" system, where you set the "rules" for each user, one of the rules is which human "language" that user gets to see the screens and reports displayed in.
BPCS uses stuff in *MSGF to make substitutions on various screens, and supplies a way for us to "relabel" some field names, so we can use them differently named than out of the box. But then along comes a version upgrade, and we want to re-apply our mods. 

Ok, we have a copy of all our renamed stuff in another library.
We do the version upgrade, replacing what's there with latest collection from the vendor. 
Then we run a CL that re-applies our mods to what the vendor replaced.
Our modification focus has been on intercepting error messages before they get to the users, and trying to do the least harmful recovery. This is because a lot of users not read the error message, just press enter, which gets default reply, which may not be best option for whatever situation, and can be worst option. 

Al Mac

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