CA Ideal Commands › CREATE MODULE Command

CREATE MODULE Command

The CREATE MODULE command creates the module form of a program or panel. This batch‑only command is used the first time a program or panel is converted to module format. Use it also when a new PROD version of the same program or panel is converted to module format. As long as the same one‑ to seven‑character module name is used, the CREATE MODULE command replaces the old module. However, if the module name for the program or panel changes, first delete the old module with the DELETE MODULE command. For more information, see the Administration Guide.

The primary output of a CREATE MODULE command is a set of IBM‑format object decks, along with appropriate Linkage Editor control statements, written to a sequential file (three object decks per CA Ideal program and 1 object deck per panel). This file is used as input to the IBM Linkage Editor. Regardless of the number of VLS object entities, there is always one object deck module created for each of the reentrant, non‑reentrant (updateable), and symbol table portions of each CA Ideal program.

You can specify many CREATE MODULE commands in the same CA Ideal batch run. The resultant object decks and appropriate Linkage Editor control statements are concatenated into the same sequential output data set. You must specify a job step following the CA Ideal batch step to execute the Linkage Editor and read that sequential file as its input.

Execute a SELECT SYSTEM command before the CREATE MODULE command to identify the CA Ideal system that contains the program. Do not execute RUN commands in the same CA Ideal job step as CREATE MODULE commands or the results can be unpredictable.

This command has the following format:

                             {PANEL name VERSION nnn}
CREATE MODULE modname [FROM] {PROGRAM name          }