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Using the Object Transport Utility with Load Modules

One possible method of migrating an application is to first use the CA Ideal Object Transport Utility to move the program and panel object modules in VLS format to the production center. After this is done, use the CREATE MODULE command in the production environment to convert the VLS object members to module format. There are several advantages to using the Object Transport Utility approach:

• You can easily unload and load related collections of programs and panels with just a few commands.
• The Object Transport Utility output identifies all the programs and panels that were loaded. This provides a list for determining which programs and panels are converted to module format.
• If any ALTER PROGRAM commands are required at a later time, the transported VLS object modules are available to ALTER. Then new load modules created from them without having to retransport. ALTER PROGRAM has no effect on module format applications.
• You are not required to be aware of module suffixes for the three modules per program.
• If a subset of all programs and panels is converted to module format, the Object Transport Utility is still needed to move those that still execute in VLS format. It is, therefore, advisable to move the whole application and then convert those programs and panels as needed to module format.