After the COBOL file definitions have been imported into the Relativity catalog, you may need to provide further maintenance
from within the
Designer. Consider the following examples:
- Record layouts for a file definition have changed from when the information was originally added to the catalog, and so the
modified file definition information needs to be merged from the COBOL source into the existing catalog information. See
Updating COBOL Data File Definitions
for more information.
- Several designers each design and test a Relativity catalog, and then the results are required in a single catalog for the
end-user. (Relativity does not permit multi-user access of the catalog by designer developers.) In this scenario, you would
merge file and table definition objects from one or more Relativity catalogs into the current catalog. See
Merging Definitions from Another Relativity Catalog
for more information.