Alternate project definitions

You can generate more than one project definition for a project. Each project definition defines the relationships between groups in the project database and the processes that you can perform on the data in the project database. Each project definition can define a different database structure, specify different control options, or support different languages for the project.

Limit the use of alternate project definitions to satisfying a temporary need for a capability that the default (primary) project definition does not provide. You can use alternate project definitions successfully if they are never used to introduce or update members controlled under the primary project definition. Thus, you could use an alternate project definition to export data from the database definition or reference data in the primary database definition. However, if you use an alternate project definition to restrict an SCLM verification capability for data that is intended for the primary project definition, you can introduce integrity problems.

You can have an unlimited number of alternate project definitions for a project.

Figure 1 shows an alternate project definition with a primary non-key integration group (DEPT) defined for the project database structure shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1. Sample Alternate Project Definition

   PROJ1    FLMABEG
   *
   *
   *    TYPE SPECIFICATION
   *
   ARCHDEF  FLMTYPE
   DESIGN   FLMTYPE
   LIST     FLMTYPE
   LOAD     FLMTYPE
   OBJ      FLMTYPE
   SOURCE   FLMTYPE
   *
   *
   *    GROUP SPECIFICATION, DEFINE THE AUTHORIZATION CODES
   *
   RELEASE  FLMGROUP AC=(REL),KEY=Y
   TEST     FLMGROUP AC=(REL),KEY=Y,PROMOTE=RELEASE
   INT      FLMGROUP AC=(REL),KEY=Y,PROMOTE=TEST
   DEPT     FLMGROUP AC=(REL),KEY=N,PROMOTE=INT
   USER1    FLMGROUP AC=(REL),KEY=Y,PROMOTE=DEPT
   USER2    FLMGROUP AC=(REL),KEY=Y,PROMOTE=DEPT
   USER3    FLMGROUP AC=(REL),KEY=Y,PROMOTE=DEPT
   *
   *
   *    PROJECT CONTROLS
   *
            FLMCNTRL ACCT=PROJ1.ACCOUNT.FILE,                         C
                  MAXLINE=75
   *
   *
   *    LANGUAGE DEFINITIONS
   *
            COPY  FLM@ARCD     -- ARCHITECTURE     LANGUAGE    --
            COPY  FLM@TEXT     -- TEXT             LANGUAGE    --
            COPY  FLM@SCRP     -- SCRIPT 3         LANGUAGE    --
            COPY  FLM@ASM      -- 370 ASSEMBLER    LANGUAGE    --
            COPY  FLM@COBE     -- Enterprise COBOL LANGUAGE    --
            COPY  FLM@FORT     -- FORTRAN IV       LANGUAGE    --
            COPY  FLM@PSCL     -- PASCAL           LANGUAGE    --
            COPY  FLM@PLIE     -- Enterprise PL/I  LANGUAGE    --
            COPY  FLM@L370     -- 370 LINKAGE EDITOR           --
   *
    FLMAEND