CALENDAR: personal appointment calendar

Description

Provides a daily appointment calendar. Text may be entered in time slots or in a free-text area. Reporting option for one day or all days.

Categories

Personal Management

Related files

CALENDAR: Object file and COBOL source for program.

CALDATA: Data file that holds calendar information.

User Instructions

Shows calendar entries for the user for a given date. Text can be added, deleted, or printed. When run for the first time by a user, a warning message appears; this will disappear as soon as any entry is made by the user for any date.

To review entries, enter the date to be examined or press PF(08). Press PF(02) to see first record, PF(05) to see next, PF(09) to modify, PF(12) to delete, PF(13) to add, PF(15) to print, or PF(16) to exit to the OPTIONS menu.

For each date, up to five lines of 75 characters each may be entered at the top, along with a 30-character description for each half-hour time slot.

From the OPTIONS menu, select PF(01) to return to calendar maintenance, PF(02) to print the current entry, or PF(03) to print all calendar entries. Press PF(16) to exit the program.

Programmer Instructions

Must be used interactively; no GETPARM control. Associated data file (CALDATA) must reside in the same library as CALENDAR.

A hidden GETPARM (OPTIONS) allows the screens to be bypassed unless an entry exists for that day. To use this option, run CALENDAR from a procedure using the following statements:

  RUN CALENDAR [ in library on volume ]
  ENTER OPTIONS     FUNCTION = MSG

(Note that the keyword must be exactly 'MSG'; the program is case-sensitive.)

COBOL source is available.

Example of use

Add to personal menu to schedule appointments or track past activities. Reports can be produced for one day or all days.

Comments

A limited time management system that could be of use to light users. Calendar entries are retained by user ID; no other user may view someone else's calendar. Lacks group distribution and automatic purge features; entries must be manually purged.