TRANSFER Installation and Management Guide

User-Supplied Modules
Managing a TRANSFER System
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A default agent configuration, the vacation agent configuration, and the print-on-
delivery agent configuration are provided with TRANSFER and are accessible from
ADMIN. You can provide an agent configuration for additional agents; in some
instances, you might also be required to provide a module for deleting your agent
configuration and the agent.
You make these agents available in the following ways:
Agents written in SCREEN COBOL must be stored in the user-supplied SCREEN
COBOL library specified for Base TRANSFER in the DEFINETR file described in
Section 5. Section 4 discusses the preparation of SCREEN COBOL libraries.
Agents that are servers must be configured for the TRANSFER PATHWAY system
in customizing files, as described in Section 7.
User-Supplied Agent
Configuration and Deletion
Modules
Agent configurations that are tailored to your specific needs are implemented through
SCREEN COBOL modules. If you want to supply agent-deletion modules for your
agent configurations, you must also write them in SCREEN COBOL.
Configuration Modules
The ADMIN application calls the user-supplied agent configuration module when
F8, the function key to alter an agent configuration, or F7, the function key to
insert and configure an agent, is pressed from the AGENT SELECTION screen and
the cursor is positioned at the name of the agent for which the configuration was
designed. The name of the SCREEN COBOL module for the user-supplied agent
configuration must be the agent name suffixed by -CONFIG.
Refer to the TRANSFER Programming Guide for the calling sequence for the user-
supplied agent configuration module.
Deletion Modules
If your agent configuration module produces special information that is not stored
as part of the agent selection criteria in the agent profile, you must supply a
SCREEN COBOL module to delete that information and the agent from a depot.
The user-supplied deletion module is called by the ADMIN application when F6,
the function key to delete an agent, is pressed from the AGENT SELECTION
screen and the cursor is positioned at the agent name to which the deletion
applies. The name of the SCREEN COBOL module for the user-supplied deletion
must be the agent name suffixed by -DELETE.
Refer to the TRANSFER Programming Guide for the deleting sequence for the user-
supplied agent configuration module.