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Chapter 4 Modifying the Application Message Catalog You modify a message catalog by adding, replacing, and deleting set, message, and comment records in the source file. This modification is done by merging two files, an old source file, and the maintenance file to create a new source file, as shown in Figure 4.1. The old source file is the catalog you originally created and input to the GENCAT utility to be formatted. The maintenance file contains the changes that will be made to the old source file. You may use one of two methods to merge these files, either by line numbers or by set and message numbers, to create a new source. Unless consecutive blocks of a source file require modification, the set and message number merge method is the easiest. You may keep changes made to a source during a maintenance merge in a collision file. Collision files give you the capability to rollback to the old version of the source file. After you create a modified source file, you format it with GENCAT. The formatted catalog can then be accessed by your application program. For information about formatting the source file, refer to "Formatting a Source Catalog" in Chapter 2. For information about accessing your formatted catalog, refer to Chapter 3.