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Announcing the VPlus VMERGE Utility
by Mike Kerwan and Rachel Schwab
Commercial Systems Division
VPlus Version B.06.05
The B.06.05 version of VPlus is available on this MPE/iX release. This
version contains several fixes and enhancements, including a new utility,
VMERGE.PUB.SYS.
VMERGE Utility
VMERGE is a new VPlus utility that allows users to combine two or more
separately-compiled VPlus forms files into a single forms file, which may
then be used with an application program to manage the entry and
retrieval of data.
Combining multiple forms files with VMERGE provides the following
advantages:
* Some file size limitations can be overcome. Since there are
limitations on how many physical records can be placed in a VFORM
file, VPlus users sometimes find that they cannot use a single
forms file to hold all the forms their application requires. With
VMERGE, it is possible to add more forms (from a second forms
file) to the ones in the initial forms file, even if the first is
at or near the maximum size.
* It is sometimes easier to maintain a large forms file as several
separately compiled "modules" that can then be combined with
VMERGE rather than to maintain one large forms file.
For more details on how to successfully use VMERGE, please refer to the
"VPlus VMERGE Utility User's Guide" in the "Technical Articles" chapter
of this Communicator.