Recommended Processes for Staged Compilation

If you are creating new programs or customizing existing ones, you may want to take advantage of staged compilation. Staged compilation enables you to reduce the downtime for a product line when you have programs or other objects that need compiling. With staged compilation, the programs or other changed objects are compiled but not moved directly to the runtime environment. Instead the objects are placed in a stgcmp directory and you can deploy them to the runtime environment as a separate step.

The recommended way to use staged compilation with customized programs varies depending on if you are deploying programs in a development environment or in a production environment. The main difference is that in a production environment you should use lawappinstall as the main utility and in a development environment you can use the stgcmp utility.

For more information on lawappinstall and staged compilation, see the Lawson Enterprise Applications Installation Guide. For more information on stgcmp, see the System Utilities Reference Guide.