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Step 1: Retrieve Dialog XXXDADD

In order to retrieve a dialog, you use ADSC.

If you did not transfer to ADSC earlier in this chapter when you exited from IDD, you need to invoke ADSC by using the task code (for example, ADSCT) for ADSC. For more information on invoking ADSC, see Step 1: Invoke ADSC.

ADSC begins by displaying the Main Menu screen. You use a blank Main Menu screen to retrieve a dialog.

Screen Prompts

You typically enter information after one or more of the following Main Menu screen prompts:

• Dialog name—You must specify the name (XXXDADD) that you used when you defined the dialog in Step 2: Define Dialog XXXDADD.
• Dictionary name—You must specify the same dictionary, if any, as you specified for your dialog in Chapter 4. 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 dialog definition. The correct dictionary node may already be displayed in this field.

You use the ADSC Main Menu screen to retrieve dialog XXXDADD:

    Add  Modify  Compile  Delete  Display  Switch
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    Dialog name . . . . . . .   xxxdadd
    Dialog version  . . . . .   1
    Dictionary name . . . . .   demo
    Dictionary node . . . . .   ________

    Screen  . . . . . . . . .   1  1. General options
                                   2. Assign maps
                                   3. Assign database
                                   4. Assign records and tables
                                   5. Assign process modules

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

Press [Enter] to retrieve the application.

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

Note: If the dialog has not been explicitly released (using the Release option of the Modify action on the action bar of the Main Menu), naming the dialog on the Main Menu screen retrieves that definition for modification. If the dialog has been released, you use the ADSC Main Menu screen to check out the dialog 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 dialog, see CA ADS Reference Guide.

If the dialog 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 press [Enter], ADSC displays dialog XXXDADD on the Main Menu screen, with appropriate messages.

You can now specify dialog options on the Options and Directives screen. You access the Options and Directives screen by choosing option 1 from the Main Menu.