Control File

The customer specification of the name rules is set up in a text file in a special format, described in detail below. This definition file may be given an arbitrary name and can be both created and interpreted in a function of the inithull facility. In order to make the part name definition available to the application programs it should be compiled by inithull. If the compilation is successful a part name control object will be stored in the structure data bank (associated with SB_OGDB) by name __TB_PARTNAME_CTRL__.

The compilation will also result in a receipt list with input and errors, if any. If inithull has been started via the Job Launcher this list can be accessed like all other files resulting from a Job Launcher run. If inithull has been started outside the Job Launcher the receipt list will be stored in print directory of the current project with the file extension. lst appended to the name of the input file.

For backwards compatibility reasons it is currently necessary to assign the input file name (without file extension) to the environment variable TB_PARTNAME_CTRL.