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Library Code Maintenance

You create Library Codes by making decisions about these codes and then entering the necessary information into the CA-PanAPT system. The following sections in this chapter show you how to enter the necessary Library Code details into the CA‑PanAPT system. Before adding Library Codes via the CA-PanAPT online system, organize all of the options for each by completing the Library Code Setup Form, provided in the CA‑PanAPT Administrator Guide, Appendix A, "Forms," to assist you in making your decisions.

This section presents an overview of the Library Code Maintenance activities:

• ADD—Alters the data for existing Library Codes
• CHG—Creates new Library Codes
• COP—Creates new Library Codes by copying existing ones
• DEL—Removes Library Codes from the system
• INQ—Views the data for existing Library Codes

Each of these activities begins from the Library Code Maintenance Entry Panel and involves processing a series of panels. The entire series of panels is presented in sequence in this chapter. You need to learn the major purpose for using the panel before you process it. Therefore, this chapter is arranged according to the major functions of each panel, rather than by the panel names themselves. You might not see every panel while processing an activity, what you see depends upon the activity being processed and the values in various Library Code fields. Details on this are provided in the panel and field descriptions in the following sections of this chapter.

You can abort your changes by entering the END command (PF3) at any time in the series of panels except while you are editing or browsing the model specifications. If you abort your changes, you are returned to the Library Code Maintenance Entry panel. After the last panel in the series is processed, the activity is considered complete and any updates become permanent.

This entire series of panels assumes you are processing the ADD command. For the INQ command, you can process as many panels as you need. You must go through all of the panels for the CHG, COP and DEL commands before the Library Code is successfully deleted, copied or changed. Each panel is described in the following sections of this chapter.

You can create a new Library Code by copying an existing one, using the COPy action on the Library Code Maintenance panel. If you choose this action, you are taken through all of the Library Code panels as if you were adding a new Library Code. The data on the panels is taken from the Library Code you are copying, except that the ddnames for the new Library Code is blank. If you press ENTER on this panel without entering ddnames, default ddnames are created from the new Library Code/subcode. You can change any of the existing data. The new Library Code is created after you press ENTER on the last panel. If you enter the END command (PF3) on any of these panels, the new Library Code is NOT created.