Rational Developer for System z, Version 7.6

Using the help migration

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Before you begin
To be able to use the help migration on a Program, you must previously:
  1. In the Design explorer view, open a location (it must be represented by open location).

  2. Right-click on a Program instance and select Migration help in the popup menu. This opens a two-page wizard:
    • On the first page, you specify the two Cobol files generated in VA Pac: the first file includes both the code from the Program's design and the specific code whereas the second file, the control file, only contains the code corresponding to the Program's design. Click Finish if you want the help migration function to replace the Pac constants and date of the VA Pac generated file with those of the locally-generated file. Otherwise, click Next to access the second page of the wizard.
    • On the second page, you indicate whether you want to keep the Pac constants and date of the VA Pac generated file, and if so, whether a warning is to be displayed on the corresponding lines. Then click Finish.
Results
The migration help function copies the two VA Pac generated Cobol files into the location and generates the local Cobol file. It compares the contents of the control file with those of the locally-generated file and puts warnings wherever it finds discrepancies.

To view these warnings, you must then open the generated .cbl file with the PDP LPEX editor. The warnings remain as long as you do not fix them or generate a new code. Quick fixes are available.


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