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pavans_here
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Hi,
Can anyone give the exact difference between map and mapset?
Can i say two independent maps (i mean no way these two maps are related) as a mapset?
Programatically too it confuses mee |
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William Thompson
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| pavans_here wrote: |
Can anyone give the exact difference between map and mapset?
Can i say two independent maps (i mean no way these two maps are related) as a mapset?
Programatically too it confuses mee |
Map is to mapset as egg is to egg carton.
And, yes, we can put medium brown eggs in a carton with jumbo white eggs without a problem - but it makes sense not to....  |
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pavans_here
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Thanks Thompson,
I am just a beginner, Can you give an application where we can use this mapset concept? Advantages of this mapset concept, its uses, over maps?
Can we have a mapset inside a mapset? |
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William Thompson
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| It is not a concept, a mapset is just a set of maps. Maps are the things hat do the work, while mapsets are just the holder of maps. |
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DavidatK
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William,
I like the analogy eggs, egg carton, white and brown eggs 
pavan kumar,
An example of why you might have several maps inside a mapset. Lets assume that you have a banking application, and the screens for this application are all the same for the first 5 lines.
Maybe, titles, locations, etc. and say account number and option field. Option 1 = account holder name/address, option 2 = current balances, option 3 = transaction history, etc.
These first 5 lines could be a map within the mapset. The other maps would be the displays for each of the options starting on line 6.
Why re-code the first 5 lines for every option? Send two maps, or three. Maybe the last 3 lines are error massages, instructions.
And as you can see, all the eggs in the carton are large white. They all relate to the same application. You could have coded each map separately and not had them in one mapset, but it?s sure a lot easier to maintain if they are. |
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sundar28
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 It is very simple
 Map defines part of a screen; Mapset defines the full screen.
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| Programatically too it confuses me |
Don't worry pawan. Programatically, Only Mapsets are handled (loaded, referenced, sent etc ). Of course, Maps are defined within a mapset. |
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William Thompson
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| sundar28 wrote: |
| Map defines part of a screen; Mapset defines the full screen. |
Sorry, I have to disagree, a map can define part of a screen or the full screen. A mapset really doesn't define anything.
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| Only Mapsets are handled (loaded, referenced, sent etc). |
Loaded, yes; Referenced, yes; Sent, I think not. The only reason the mapset name is in the SEND is to identify where the map to be sent is. |
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animeshjai
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in general language map is called as the cics screep on which we see the entries what we done
and mapset is nothing but the collection of maps. |
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