Maintaining Patch Numbers

The Browser menu provides the Patches command, which accesses a submenu containing the Browse and Summary commands. For details about the Summary of Patches window that is displayed when you select the Summary command, see "Displaying a Patch History Summary", earlier in this chapter.

To access the Patches Browser

1. Select the Patches command from the Browser menu.

2. Select the Browse command from the submenu that is then displayed.

The Patches Browser, shown in the following image, is then displayed.

Use the Patches Browser to maintain patches and extract patches for a specified patch number. The Patches Browser displays a list of patch numbers for the current schema, as follows.

• A red entry indicates the patch number that is the currently set patch

• A black entry indicates an open patch

• A gray entry indicates a closed patch

  Closed patches are displayed only when the All command or the Closed command in the View menu is selected. By default, only open patches are displayed.

By default, all patch numbers are displayed; that is, the current patch number, all open patch numbers, and all closed patch numbers.

The Patches and View menus are displayed when the Patches Browser is the current window. For details, see the following subsections.

The Patches menu provides the commands listed in the following table. (These commands are also displayed on the context, or popup, menu when you right-click in the Patches Browser, as shown in the previous image.)

Command	For details, see…	Action
Add	Adding a Patch Number	Accesses the Patch Number Update dialog
Change	Changing a Patch Number	Accesses the Patch Number Update dialog
Set	Setting a Patch Number	Sets the current patch number to the patch number selected in Patches Browser
Close	Closing a Patch Number	Closes the selected patch number
Reopen	Reopening a Closed Patch Number	Reopens a closed patch number
Unset	Unsetting a Patch Number	Unsets the current patch number
Show Methods	Displaying Updated and Added Methods in the Current Schema	Displays the methods that were updated or added in the selected patch for the currently selected schema
Show All Methods	Displaying Updated and Added Methods for All Schemas	Displays the methods that were updated or added in the selected patch for all schemas
Extract	Extracting Changes for a Patch Number	Extracts all changes for the selected patch number
Summary	Displaying a Summary for the Selected Patch Number	Displays the Patches window for the selected patch number

The View menu provides the commands listed in the following table.

Command	For details, see…	Action
All	Displaying All Patch Numbers for the Current Schema	Displays the complete list of patches for the current schema
Open	Displaying Open Patch Numbers Only	Displays only the list of open patches
Closed	Displaying Closed Patch Numbers Only	Displays only the list of closed patches
Current User	Displaying Your Own Patch Numbers Only	Displays only the patch numbers that you opened
Refresh	Refreshing the Patches Browser	Refreshes (updates) the Patches Browser

In addition, the File menu provides the patch-related command listed in the following table.

Command	For details, see…	Action
Set Patch Number	Setting a Patch Number	Accesses the Set Patch Number dialog

For details about:

• Reassigning a patch history of one or more change items from one patch number to another, see "Reassigning Patch Numbers", later in this chapter.

• Removing a patch history, see "Removing a Patch History of Changes", earlier in this chapter.