To increase the efficiency of message catalog accessing, you may
want to convert your MAKECAT formatted message catalog to a
GENCAT formatted catalog. GENCAT is the newer facility for creating formatted message catalogs.
It is faster, allows more set numbers, allows you to modify
your catalogs easily, and permits catalog rollback.
If you decide to perform the conversion you must perform two tasks:
Change the Intrinsic Access
Altering the Catalog |
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Changing a MAKECAT formatted
file to a GENCAT formatted file is easy; just run the source
through the GENCAT program to format it. For details
about GENCAT and how it formats source files, refer to Chapter 3
of this manual.
Changing the Intrinsic Access |
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To access a GENCAT formatted catalog, change all the
HPFOPEN calls in the program to the catalog to CATOPEN
calls with the correct parameters. GENMESSAGE intrinsic calls
must
be changed to CATREAD; change FCLOSE to CATCLOSE
when closing the catalog. For explanations of the intrinsics, refer
to the MPE XL Intrinsics Reference Manual (32650-90028).
Also refer to Chapter 3, "Accessing Application Message Catalogs".
