Pathmaker Reference Manual

Requester Generation Data Screen
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Skeleton
The Skeleton field has either the logical (DEFINE) name or file name of the requester
skeleton file that Pathmaker uses to generate the SCREEN COBOL program.
The default for this field is a DEFINE name, =_REQUESTER_SKELETON, that maps to
the requester skeleton file, REQSKL, on the subvolume where the object files for this
version of Pathmaker reside.
You can make a copy of REQSKL and make certain minor modifications to it. For
more information about modifying requester skeletons, refer to the Pathmaker
Programming Guide. If you do copy and modify the requester skeleton, you can enter
the file name of the copy you created in this field.
Caution If you modify the requester skeleton, you might create future maintenance issues, because the requester
skeleton is likely to change in future releases of the Pathmaker product.
Source File
Enter the name of a source code file. This is an optional field.
During requester generation Pathmaker writes the SCREEN COBOL source code for
this requester into the file. If no source file is defined, Pathmaker uses a temporary file
named ZZPMSnnn for the source code and then discards the file after compilation if
no compilation errors are encountered.
Copy Library
Enter the name of your copy library code file if you want the Pathmaker product to
insert code from a copy library into the requester program.
The Pathmaker product creates a file containing the required copy library sections
when you first generate the requester. To create a requester copy library file, enter a
copy library file name, suppress compilation, and generate the requester source code.
Add SCREEN COBOL code to the appropriate sections of the file and regenerate the
requester.
Compile
Enter Y or N:
Y To compile the source code file. This is the default value.
N To generate a source code file, but not compile it yet. No SCREEN COBOL object
code is produced when the requester is generated.
Listing Device
Enter the name of a disk file, spooler, or printer if you want a listing of the compiler
output. If you specify a disk file, it must exist and be an unstructured format.
If you entered N in the Compile field, leave this field blank.