This panel displays existing exit points. Exit points are used to simplify any upgrade of existing DC1 implementations. The merge of modifications into the new DC1 release can be controlled via the exit points, thereby decreasing the costs in terms of time spent on the merge.
Options
Company level | Select this option to maintain the exit points on company level. |
Selection fields
Work with exit points (ASTD11104)
On this panel you define the parameters for the exit points.
- Program/Exit point
- Enter/Displays the program name in the first field, where the exit point can be executed.
Enter/displays the name of the exit point in the second field. The naming standard for the exit point name is: Program name + Xnn where nn is a sequence number.
- Description
- Enter/Displays a descriptive text outlining what this exit point is used for.
- Company level
- Indicate if this exit point can be activated on company level. This flag can be changed at any time. If set to False, the BlackBox program that retrieves active exit points for a specific program will not check if the exit point is active for the current company.
- Active
- Indicate if this exit point is active. This flag must be set to True even if you, at a later time, perform an activation on company level.
- Program to call
- Enter the name of the program source which contains the template source code into where you will add the specific customer modifications. The program call itself is hard-coded into the calling program.
- Subset
- Mandatory entry in add mode. When adding new records to subset-handled system files, the system defaults the applicable subset from the Release definition table for the company that you have signed on to. To create or update records belonging to subsets that are secured in the Subset table, you must sign on as a user with the same authority as the DC1 system administrator.
- Identity
- PTF/Mod number
- Change date
Work with exit points, Copy (ASTD11105)
On this panel you enter the copy parameters.
- Program
- Displays the program you chose to copy.
- Exit point
- Displays the exit point you chose to copy.
- New program
- Enter the new program.
- New exit point
- Enter the new exit point.