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ETU400 User Guide 011603 8-10
Compiling the New Translation Member
After you create or modify a new translation source file member using
SEU, you must compile it into a physical file member before you can use
it in the ETU translation program. The compiler
• edits the translate table source;
• prints a listing of the table (including any error messages);
• writes the compiled table to a physical file member.
To compile the new member, use the AS/400 command EDITTABLE (option 20 on
the ETU Utilities menu). Supply the name of the source file and member to
be compiled. Then supply the name of the physical file and member into
which to compile the new member.
Naming the New Member
The decision of what to name the new physical file and member is an
important one. This is because the ETU programs that use translation
tables have defaults for the translation table file and member names. The
default for the translation file is always TRANSLATE. The default for the
member name depends on the ETU command being used. If you fail to take
into account the default names when you name the new physical file and
member, you will most likely have to change the defaults each time you
translate a file with the newly created table.
While having to change the file and member name presents no real
problems, you can save time when defining ETU transfers by following
these suggestions.
We suggest that you store any new PC-based translation table members in
the file TRANSLATE.
If you modify an existing table that will replace the original table, you
can give the new table the same name as the existing table. By doing
this, the ETU commands that previously used the original table as the
default will use the new table as the default.
If you don't intend for the new table to replace the original table, then
be sure to give the new table a unique name. Then, each time you
translate a file using the new translation table, be sure you specify the
new table name in the TRANSMBR prompt.