Save Location Question

Hi All,

We are envisioning some functionality with the save location but I am not so sure whether it is doable.

When we promote a project, say form DV to PY, it will automatically save the Object that is "already in PY" in the PY SAVE location, before it transferes to PY, so that we have a OLD PY copy.
same thing with the PY to PD move.

In the Activity Rules, Save & restore is not in the UDC values in the OMW Action field there. It is only in the Allowed Actions application. So what am going to do for that may be I can use transfer 01 Activity to PY save.

Some of the other things I am thinking are...

With the Activity Rules it will only use the object being transferred.
Wait but when the project moves form DV to PY If it gets the following instructions

(A)get the PY central specs & save it in PY SAVE
(B)Transfer DV Central specs to PY central

any way how can I tell it to do the (A) 1 st & (B) 2 nd?
Just put the rules in & see what happenes? Do I have any control?

I know the save location was not designed for this purpose, but trying to sqeeze it to get what we want.


Any ideas on this?

Thanks every one !

Mali

Hi Mali,

Yes, there's a solution to your request :

First of all, you have to create a custom pathcode,
let's call it CU. There are plenty of JDE documents on
how to create custom pathcodes...

Second, you have to modify your OMW promotion rules
Instead of simply going 21->26 which copies DV to PY,
your sequence will be 21->21T followed by 21T->26.

When you promote 21->21T it will copy objects from
PY to CU (of course, you'll manually have to create those
promotion rules in OMW)
Then, when you promote 21T->26 it will copy from DV to PY
(once again, you have to setup those promotion rules)

If you want the same for the PY->PD, then you create a
SECOND custom environment and repeat the whole cycle :
26->28->28T->38

26->28 does nothing as usual, 28->28T will copy objects
from PD to this second custom pathcode, and finally
28T->38 will actually copy from PY to PD.

How do you recover an object from SAVE PY?
Create an empty project on status 21T, put the object
you want to recover inside and then promote that project
to 21 or 26. Of course, once again, you'll have to
manually define the object promotion rules.

Please note that any project containing brand new DV
objects will fail going through 21->21T->26 because they
have no equivalents in PY yet. In that case, promote
them just by going 21->26.

Regards,