In response to #2 - We had a somewhat similar setup for a while because we were warehousing goods for a customer. Their data was unique to their inventory, so they needed their own separate account, but they needed to use the same applications as us with a few minor exceptions. Our live account was FABRIC.PROD and our source code was in BP, so our BP VOC looked like this:
F BP D_BP and theirs looked like this: Q FABRIC.PROD BP The handful of exception programs were stored in a type 19 file in their account with a VOC entry like this: F BP.PDTN D_BP.PDTN The exception programs were named the same as ours, but by locally cataloging the BP.PDTN copy while logged into their account, their VOC was re-pointed to their own copy. The non-exception VOC entries pointed to the BPs in our account. This setup allowed us to maintain only 1 set of code for the most part, so bug fixes and enhancements didn't have to be ported over to an add'l account. As Mark suggested, you could utilize the same setup for testing by having an add'l local BP file in your SANDBOX account. Catalog the local version for testing, then copy it over to the SOFTWARE account file and catalog that copy when it's ready to go live. As a side benefit, if you always delete the local testing copy when you copy it back to the live file, you'll have a quick way to list every program currently being worked on. -John -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Brutzman Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 8:28 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: [U2] Compiling 102 1. It works. Thanks to Kat, Tom, Vance, and Drew. 2. I am wondering if others keep their source code in an UV account as such. 3. Prior to this thread, I had two accounts /u2/METAL /u2/SANDBOX 4. The source code was not in a UV account in /u2/SOFTWARE 5. An advantage that I seem to have now is that I can compile code when logged in to either METAL or SANDBOX and the compiled code works in both METAL and SANDBOX. In other words, I do not have to compile the same source code for each account. It is not clear to me how VOC and Q-Pointers are setup to handle this scheme. 6. Comments would be welcome. --Bill _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
