Modifying the Application Structure Using ADSA › Instructions › Step 1: Retrieve the Application to be Modified

Step 1: Retrieve the Application to be Modified

Invoking ADSA

In order to modify an application, you must first invoke ADSA and then use ADSA to retrieve the application definition.

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

ENTER NEXT TASK CODE:
adsat

                                                                [Enter]

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

ADSA begins by displaying the Main Menu screen. You use the ADSA Main Menu screen to retrieve an application definition for modification. To retrieve an application, you typically enter information after one or more of the following Main Menu screen prompts:

Screen prompts

• Application name—You must specify the name (for example, XXXDEPT) that you used when you defined the application in Chapter 7.
• Dictionary name—You must specify the same dictionary, if any, as you specified for your application definition in Chapter 7. 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 application definition in Chapter 7. The correct dictionary node may already be displayed in this field.

Retrieving the Department application

Use the ADSA Main Menu screen to retrieve the Department application:

     Add  Modify  Compile  Delete  Display  Switch
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     Application name . . . .    xxxappl
     Application version  . .    1
     Dictionary name  . . . .    demo
     Dictionary node  . . . .    ________

     Screen . . . . . . . . . _    1. General options
                                   2. Responses and Functions
                                   3. Global records
                                   4. Task codes

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

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

For information on checking out an application, see CA ADS Reference Guide.

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

If you made any errors in your application specification, ADSA displays information about another application, and/or displays an error message. In either case, make sure that you typed the correct application name, dictionary, and node, as necessary. You can type over any errors, and then press [Enter] again.

After you successfully retrieve the Department application, you can modify the EXIT response.