Process of not promoting a member (NOREBUILD)

This section describes the process of not promoting a member but promoting the load modules and related members (NOREBUILD).

Note: Prior to this new functionality, promotion of SCLM members left the SCLM environment in a complete state where the dates and times in the accounting records, member statistics, and the build maps matched. Performing a build at this level does not result in any members being built.

The new functionality of promoting everything except a member and its accounting record (No Promote - No Rebuild) results in SCLM being in a broken state. The build maps containing the non-promoted member have dates and times for the member which was not promoted. This means that SCLM needs to cater for several issues when promoting and building using the members with an accounting status of NOPROM-N. These issues are:

Need to backup the non-promoted member. Since you are promoting the build maps that were built using the non-promoted member, you need to take a backup of this member. This ensures that, even if the member has been modified or deleted after you promoted, you can still recreate the outputs (load modules).
SCLM needs to be able to promote build maps at a level where a member was left behind. After promotion, where a member was left behind but the build maps were not rebuilt, the level you promoted into is in a broken state. Normally, when attempting to promote these changes further, SCLM gave you date and time inconsistencies between the build map and accounting record for the non-promoted members.
For the new functionality, SCLM has been changed so that when promoting it ignores the date and time inconsistencies between the build map, accounting record, and member statistics if:
- The build map contains a NOPROM build map record, and
- The build level (not viewable) found on the NOPROM build map record does not match the current build level
SCLM needs to be able to build at a level where a member was left behind. After promotion, where a member was left behind but the build maps were not rebuilt, the level you promoted into is in a broken state. Normally, when attempting to build at this level, it causes the build maps with date and time inconsistencies (due to left-behind members) to be rebuilt.
For the new functionality, SCLM has been changed so that when building it ignores the date and time inconsistencies between the build map, accounting record, and member statistics if:
- The build map contains a NOPROM build map record, and
- The build level (not viewable) found on the NOPROM build map record does not match the current promote from level