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arif.md
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I have made the changes to the Copy Book where in, I have added a field with Redefines Clause. See the below example.
Existing Copy Book
01 VAR1 PIC X(10).
Changes to the Copy Book, I have added this line in the copy book.
01 VAR2 REDEFINES VAR1 PIC X(10).
Now, in this case, Do I need to RECOMPILE the existing programs which are using this other fields of the copy book but not using VAR2.
Thanks
Arif |
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Manuneedhi K
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| You don't have to . But it is always a good practice to recompile all the programs whenever a copybook used by them is changed. |
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the_gautam
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As Manuneedhi told,
It helps in the future changes... |
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arif.md
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Thanks a lot. I have one more question related copy book changes and recompilation.
The situation is
Existing copy book
01 VAR-AREA OCCURS 5 TIMES.
20 VAR-REAS PIC X(5).
20 VAR-AMT PIC S9(7)V99 COMP-3.
Changed
01 VAR-AREA OCCURS 6 TIMES.
20 VAR-REAS PIC X(5).
20 VAR-AMT PIC S9(5)V99 COMP-3.
OCCURS is changed from 5 to 6 and the data type of VAR-AMT is changed from S9(7)V99 COMP-3 to S9(5)V99 COMP-3.
Total memory is same in both the cases.
Here in this case Do I need to recompile the existing programs which are using the fields. |
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CICS Guy
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For the first post, no, you do not have to recompile any program that does not reference VAR2.
The second post, you must recompile every program that references VAR-AMT and every program that moves VAR-AREA to some other storage and expects to get the VAR-AMT data there. |
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enrico-sorichetti
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what are the standards in Your organization?
do they accept mismatched timestamps in the dependencies ???
proga depends on copybook booka
progb depends on the same copybook , but with the latest changes
booka and progb climb the promotion ladder up to production..
and now You have a timestamp mismatch between proga and booka
( from an audit point of view, but that will mean anyway lots of paperwork to explain why )
in the long run always rebuilding everything might be the less troublesome approach |
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