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POLYCENTER Software Installation Utility Developer's Guide

The REGISTER MODULE statement registers in the product database one or more existing modules in a command, help, macro, object, or text library file.

Syntax

Parameters

TYPE type

Indicates the library type. Table 7-9 lists the keywords you can use with this parameter.

Table 7-9 Library Types for Register Module Statement

Keyword	Library Type	Default Library File
Command	Command definition library	[SYSLIB]DCLTABLES.EXE
Help	Help library	[SYSHLP]HELPLIB.HLB
Macro	Macro library	[SYSLIB]STARLET.MLB
Object	Object library	[SYSLIB]STARLET.OLB
Text	Text library	[SYSLIB]STARLETSD.TLB

MODULE module_name

Indicates the names of the modules contained within the library.

Options

[NO] GENERATION generation

Indicates that the module has an explicit generation number. Enter the number as an unsigned integer in the range of 0 through 4294967295. See the Description section of the MODULE statement for the meaning of this value. By default, the module does not have an explicit generation number (no generation), which is equivalent to 0.

LIBRARY library

The file specification of the library. The file you use must be a library of the type you specified with the type parameter.

Description

The REGISTER MODULE statement registers in the product database one or more existing modules in a command, help, macro, object, or text library file. Typically, REGISTER MODULE statements are used when a product provides a library file with a FILE statement that is already populated with modules. Registering these modules in the product database allows the utility to detect conflicts with other modules.

Do not use REGISTER MODULE statements to register information about modules specified in a MODULE statement. When a MODULE statement is processed, module information is automatically placed in the product database. Therefore, use of REGISTER MODULE statements in this context would be redundant.

Examples

register module type HELP
              module (":=","=","@",ACCOUNTING,ALLOCATE,ANALYZE,APPEND,...) ;
      

In this example, the REGISTER MODULE statement registers several help modules in [SYSHLP]HELPLIB.HLB.

register module type OBJECT generation  1
              module (BAS$$CB,BAS$$COPY_FD,BAS$$DISPATCH_T,...) ;
      

In this example, the REGISTER MODULE statement registers several object modules. The generation option allows the utility to perform conflict resolution with these object modules.

The REMOVE statement deletes objects from the user's system. The REMOVE and END REMOVE statements form a remove group.

Note You cannot use the REMOVE statement in a transition PDF.

Syntax

[ PDL-statements ]

END REMOVE ;

Option

PDL-statements

Any product description language statement or a group of statements described in this reference section, except the PRODUCT and END PRODUCT statements.

Required Terminator

Description

The REMOVE group is used to delete objects from the user's system. Statements that normally provide managed objects (such as FILE and DIRECTORY statements) cause these objects to be deleted when the statements are enclosed in a REMOVE group.

By using the REMOVE group in a partial, patch, or mandatory update kit, you can eliminate obsolete files from a previous version of your product. By using the REMOVE group in a full kit, you can eliminate objects provided by a previous installation mechanism (for example, VMSINSTAL). You can also use a REMOVE group to delete objects that were created by a previous version of your product, but which were not recorded in the product database as managed objects. These include archived files (those saved as *.*_OLD) and files created by command procedures invoked through EXECUTE statements.

Statements that do not provide managed objects function normally within a REMOVE group.

You can nest REMOVE, END REMOVE within SCOPE, END SCOPE, if necessary.

Examples

remove ;
  directory [SYSHLP.EXAMPLES.FOO] ;
  file [SYSHLP.EXAMPLES.FOO]SMLUS.COM ;
  file [SYSHLP.EXAMPLES.FOO]SMLUT.COM ;
  file [SYSHLP.EXAMPLES.FOO]SMLUU.COM ;
end remove ;

      

The statements in this example remove some files and a directory (if they exist) from the product database and the running system.

scope bootstrap ;
    remove ;
        file [SYSEXE]PROD_PROC.EXE ;
    end remove ;
    file [SYSEXE]PROD_PROC_V2.EXE ;
end scope ;
      

The statements in this example remove a file in the bootstrap scope and then provide a new file.

The RIGHTS IDENTIFIER statement uses a command procedure to create a rights identifier.

Syntax

Parameters

name

Indicates the name of the rights identifier. The rights identifier name is passed to the command procedure as P1.

WITH (parameters,...)

Indicates the list of parameters that are passed to the command procedure that creates the rights identifier. Each parameter must be a single unquoted or quoted string that specifies P2 and P3, in order. If there are no qualifiers to pass, specify a null string (" "). See the Description section for the meaning of the parameters.

Description

The RIGHTS IDENTIFIER statement invokes a command procedure (SYS$UPDATE:PCSI$CREATE_RIGHTS_IDENTIFIER.COM) to create rights identifiers. This command procedure runs the AUTHORIZE utility to perform the function. The utility passes the following parameters to the command procedure:

• P1 specifies the name of the rights identifier (using the name parameter).
• P2 specifies the optional qualifiers to use with the AUTHORIZE command ADD/IDENTIFIER. If there are no qualifiers to pass, specify a null string (" ").
• P3 specifies the /VALUE qualifier to use with the AUTHORIZE command ADD/IDENTIFIER. You can specify this parameter only if the identifier does not already exist on the system.

When you remove a product that created rights identifiers, the POLYCENTER Software Installation utility uses a command procedure (SYS$UPDATE:PCSI$DELETE_RIGHTS_IDENTIFIER.COM) to delete rights identifiers associated with your product. This happens regardless of whether the SYSUAF.DAT is shared by another system disk.

Note In a future version, the utility may create and delete these managed objects directly without the use of command procedures. If this is the case, these statements will continue to function, but the command procedures may not be maintained or shipped with future versions of the utility.

The RIGHTS IDENTIFIER statement specifies a rights identifier managed object that has the following characteristics:

• Its name is the value of the name parameter. The name must be unique with respect to all rights identifier names in the operating scope.
• It has operating lifetime.
• It does not recover from managed object conflict.

Example

rights identifier PCSI_TEST
       with ("/attributes=DYNAMIC",
             "/value=IDENTIFIER:14600926") ;
      

In this example, the RIGHTS IDENTIFIER statement creates a rights identifier named PCSI_TEST with a value of 14600926.