Report launch form - implementation name?

Question

In the report launch form (qms0012f), no reference at all is made to the implementation name defined for the module. This attribute is mandatory when setting up the module definition (via qfd0016f), & according to the on-line help for this form it's used to specify the physical name for the module. We'd like to use it so we can have a generic report module, with separate module definitions for each menu call via qms0012f (& hence different parameters).
Why hasn't this functionality been implemented?

Answer 1

Cheryl,
I'm sorry, on creation of Headstart 2.1 we added the implementation_name to the qms_modules table, but we just plain forgot to modify qms0012f as well. As most people have the implementation name identical to the module name, nobody noticed until you did!
If you want to change this, you should modify library qms0012l.pll.
Go to package qms0012f,
find the declaration of g_short_name_item, and add a similar one g_implementation_name_item where 'SHORT_NAME' is replaced by 'IMPLEMENTATION_NAME'. In the same package qms0012f, find the function get_short_name_item and add a similar one get_implementation_name_item.
Then go to package qms$report, function fill_par_list. At the end of this function, you will see a statement l_module_name := name_in(qms0012f.get_short_name_item);
Change this into l_module_name := name_in(qms0012f.get_implementation_name_item);
I am not able to test this, but I think it should work. Please let us know if this workaround helps, then we can include it in Headstart 6i.
Hope this helps,
Sandra