DTM for iSeries OV/400 Transition

OV/400 Transition

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The OV/400 Transition Feature of DTM for iSeries takes care of upgrading existing OV/400 RFT/FFT documents to DTM documents, and it provides replacements for the OV/400 CL commands typically used to integrate Data/Text Merge functions into existing AS/400 applications.

Any existing OV/400 document can be upgraded in one of the following ways :

• A document can be upgraded on-the-fly the first time it is used by DTM for iSeries. This kind of upgrade always happens whenever an OV/400 document is used through one of the OV/400-like CL commands and there is not yet a DTM version of this document.
• A batch upgrade can be performed on all the documents in a specific folder by running the Import RFT Document ( IMPRFTDOC ) or Import FFT Document ( IMPFFTDOC ) command.

Additionally, a number of OV/400-like CL commands are available to limit the number of changes required to integrate DTM for iSeries into existing OV/400 based applications. These OV/400-like CL commands include Print Document ( PRTDOC ), Merge Document ( MRGDOC ), Edit Document ( EDTDOC ) and so on. The parameters of these commands are similar to the parameters of the OV/400 CL commands.