History status of Promotion packages in Package exits.

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Issue/Introduction

Description:

It might be necessary due to site specific requirements to check in a C1UEXT07 whether History exists of a Promotion Package. This knowledge document supplies you with some information about how to accomplish this.

Solution:

If one wants to know in an EXIT07 if other versions of this PKG have existed , the following fields are available in the $PHDRDS :

PHDRPROM:     Is set to 'Y' if a Promotion Package
PHDRPPKGID:   Contains the generated  name of the copy of the previously executed package. 
              Contains Blanks if there was no Previous version ( history).

Contains Blanks if there was no Previous version ( history).

The corresponding fields in COBOL are:

PHDR-PKG-PROMOTION
PHDR-PKG-PREV-PKGID

So a straightforward check on PHDRPPKGID would suffice to know if the Promotion Package has History. If it is necessary to implement logic to obtain more info about the iterations of a Promotion Package, one can use the API List Package Header function. This API function will return the historical versions when ALPKG_RQ_PROMHIST is set.

Environment

Release: ENDAE.00200-15.1-Endevor-Software Change Manager
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