Modifying a Map Using MAPC › Step 1: Retrieve the Map To Be Modified

Step 1: Retrieve the Map To Be Modified

In order to modify a map, you must first invoke MAPC.

You can invoke MAPC from CA IDMS/DC or DC/UCF by specifying the task code for MAPC (for example, MAPCT) in response to the prompt presented by DC/UCF. For example, when using CA IDMS/DC, you invoke MAPC as shown:

ENTER NEXT TASK CODE:
mapct

                                                                [Enter]

For more information on invoking MAPC, see Step 1: Invoke MAPC.

Screen Prompts

To retrieve a map, you typically enter information after one or more of the following Map Definition screen prompts:

• Map name—You must specify the name (XXXMAP) that you used when you defined the map in Chapter 9, "Defining a Screen Display Using MAPC".
• Dictionary name—You must specify the same dictionary, if any, as you specified for your map. The correct dictionary name may already be displayed in this field.
• Dictionary node—You must specify the same dictionary node, if any, as you specified for your map definition in Chapter 14, "Modifying Process Logic in a Dialog". The correct dictionary node may already be displayed in this field.

Use the MAPC Main Menu screen to retrieve map XXXMAP:

    Add  Modify  Compile  Delete  Display  Switch
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                        CA IDMS/DC Online Map Compiler

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    Map name . . . . . . . .    xxxmap
    Map version  . . . . . .    1
    Dictionary name  . . . .    demo
    Dictionary node  . . . .    ________

    Screen . . . . . . . . . _    1. General options
                                  2. Map-Level help text definition
                                  3. Associated records
                                  4. Layout
                                  5. Field definition

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 Command ===>
 Enter  F1=Help  F3=Exit  F10=Action

After you press [Enter], MAPC redisplays the Main Menu screen with a message confirming that the map is available for modification.

Note: If the map has not been explicitly released (using the Release option of the Modify action on the action bar of the Main Menu), naming the map on the Main Menu screen retrieves that definition for modification. If the map has been released, you use the MAPC Main Menu screen to check out the map definition for modification (using the Checkout option of the Modify action on the action bar of the Main Menu).

For information on checking out a map, see CA IDMS Mapping Facility Guide.

If the map has been released, subsequently checked out to another developer and not released by that developer, you will not be able to check it out.

After you successfully check out XXXMAP, you can modify the map layout by adding and selecting map fields.