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NEWCI Command (CI Elimination)

• Any UDC ﬁles which were cataloged prior to the NEWCI are still cataloged (and thus are

executable via the HPCICOMMAND intrinsic).

• DSLINEs which were opened prior to :NEWCI will be closed.

NEWCI CI.PUB.SYS

The NEWCI command can be used to replace the current CI process (which may not be the

standard MPE/iX CI if a NEWCI command was previously done) with the standard MPE/iX

CI. This is done by executing the command “newci ci.pub.sys”. If CI.PUB.SYS is

executed using the NEWCI command, the behavior is slightly different than if it is executed

using the RUN command. The behavior of the MPE/iX CI is identical to its behavior at logon

time.

EXAMPLES:

NEWCI from a Logon UDC

The most common usage of NEWCI is from a logon UDC (most commonly an OPTION

NOBREAK logon UDC). Many system managers set up their users such that a logon UDC

automatically executes the appropriate application program at logon time. Consider the

following example logon UDC:

dologon

option logon nobreak

file progdata=datafile.pub.payroll

newci payroll.pub.payroll

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NEWCI Programmatically

The NEWCI command is programmatically executable, but only from the “root” CI process.

Some programs allow users to interactively enter CI commands (by convention CI

commands are generally preﬁxed with a : character). Most HP products/utilities allow CI

commands to be entered interactively. In the example below, the NEWCI command is

executed programmatically from within TDP. In this example, TDP is the root CI (it

became the root CI when the ﬁrst NEWCI command was issued).

:hello mgr.paryoll

:newci tdp.pub.sys

/:newci payroll.pub.payroll

CORPORATE PAYROLL (Version A.00.00)

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