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Searching Area Libraries for Latest

Checkout, recompile, and relink can search for the "latest" version of a component that is checked in to an area in your release or in prior releases. This version of the component most likely contains the latest changes.

The list of libraries that are searched for the latest version is sometimes referred to as a "consolidated list," and in other places it is called an "extended baseline." The search for the latest version is executed in this order:

  1. In the current release: Area libraries beginning with the starting area for your package and proceeding up the chain of areas through the final area.

  2. In prior releases, not installed, in inverse order of the release Install From Date/Time: All area libraries in ascending order of the step number specified in each area definition.

  3. Baseline libraries

These additional criteria apply:

  • Areas are skipped if they are defined with parameter Allow Component Checkout = N.

  • Where areas in a prior release have the same step number, those areas are searched in the order they were created in release configuration.

  • Components must be checked in to a release from a package in the same application as the package to which you are checking out.

If you specify a full component name for the function you wish to execute, the search for latest returns one component. In the case shown here, the component name for checkout is wildcarded as ACTPCTC*, and the Release Checkout area Components panel shows where the latest version of several components were found.

CMNCKO52    Release CHECKOUT ACCTPAY Components         Row 000001 Of 000004
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  Component     Lib Like Checked in to area    Package     Release  Area
_ ACPCTC10      CTC  P   2010-08-16-17.14.47   ACTP000037  FIN6420  ACCTPAY
_ ACPCTC20      CTC  P   2010-08-16-15.22.33   ACTP000036  FIN6410  FINANCE
_ ACPCTC30      CTC  P   2010-07-07-12.15.05   ACTP000015  BASELINE
_ ACPCTC99      CTC  P   2010-07-07-12.15.05   ACTP000015  BASELINE
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