The LayoutEdit program is used to Edit Record layouts and load Cobol Record layouts into the system.
When the Layout-Edit starts, there are two screens visible
Menu | Program menu, it used select the various options |
Log | This is where any errors will be written |
The options on the menu screen are
Option | Description | ||||||||
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Edit Record Layouts | The main part of the program. This is where you Create / Update Record Layouts. See "Record Edit Screen" for details. | ||||||||
Create Record Layout | This screen lets you create new record layouts. See "Record Layout Definition" for more details. | ||||||||
Create Record Layout Wizard | |||||||||
Edit Table | This is where you update the Utility Table's. Note: The only Table you should update is the System Table. See "Table Edit" | ||||||||
Edit Combos | Edit/Create Combobox Lists. See "Combo List Edit" for more details. | ||||||||
Create Combos | Create a new Combobox list. See "Combo Create" for more details. | ||||||||
Load Cobol Copybook | This option will load a Cobol Copybook into the Database. See "Load Cobol Copybook" for details.
Note: This option is only visible if the cb2xml libraries are available | ||||||||
Load XML Copybook | This option loads XML copybooks (produced by the cb2xml package) into the Database. See "Load Cobol Copybook" for details. | ||||||||
Upgrade |
This option will upgrade the backend database to the latest version.
This only needs to be run once if you upgrade (rather than reinstalling the package).
The 2 options available are
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