Organize your sources in folders in a structure that reflects your enterprise requirements. Place these folders with the sources
in a root folder in a suitable location. The files should not be placed in the workspace folder or the BRP folder.
The following points affect in-place registration of source files to the workspace when running BRP:
- Source files are no longer copied into the sources directory under the workspace, they are left in the directory that they
were registered from.
- Source files no longer need to be copied to the PreparedSources folder in the BRP directory, and the staging directory is
no longer used during BRP.
- When running BRP, if source files have already been loaded into the workspace, the folders they were registered from will
be checked for changed and new sources.
- The place that source files are loaded from into
COBOL Analyzer is no longer a staging area, it needs to be a permeant stable location of the source files.
- The BRP process will synchronize between the source location and version of code within the workspace.
- The synchronization process can be run from the user interface and this will update, remove, or insert files into the workspace
based on the files present in load directories.
- New directories can be added to the workspace as part of the BRP process by specifying the directory in the
Location of source files field on the
General tab in the
BRP Configuratror dialog box. The value of this field will be cleared after the BRP runs but it can be used again to register a new source
folder location if needed.
Note: If your files have very long file names (248 characters for file name and 260 characters for absolute path + file name),
Micro Focus recommends moving your BRP working folder closer to the root directory. For example, move
C:\Workspaces\BRP_Training\ to
C:\BRP_Training\ or even
C:\BRP_T. This is especially applicable for files with nested folder structure as part of their file names.