Creating Macro Libraries

You can create a macro library that contains one or more macros. By using a macro library, you can define a macro once and then use it within many parameter files.

To Create a Macro Library

Open a new file in a text editor.
Use commented lines to describe the library, if needed.
Using the syntax described in Defining a Macro, enter the syntax for each macro.
Save the file in the dirprm sub-directory of the Oracle GoldenGate directory as:
```
filename.mac
```
Where:

filename is the name of the file. The .mac extension defines the file as a macro library.

The following sample library named datelib contains two macros, #make_date and #assign_date.

-- datelib macro library
--
MACRO #make_date
PARAMS (#year, #month, #day)
BEGIN
@DATE ('YYYY-MM-DD', 'CC', @IF (#year < 50, 20, 19), 'YY', #year, 'MM', #month, 'DD', #day)
END;

MACRO #assign_date
PARAMS (#target_col, #year, #month, #day)
BEGIN
#target_col = #make_date (#year, #month, #day)
END;

To use a macro library, use the INCLUDE parameter at the beginning of a parameter file, as shown in the following sample Replicat parameter file.

INCLUDE /ggs/dirprm/datelib.mac
REPLICAT rep
ASSUMETARGETDEFS
USERIDALIAS ogg
MAP fin.acct_tab, TARGET fin.account;

When including a long macro library in a parameter file, you can use the NOLIST parameter to suppress the listing of each macro in the Extract or Replicat report file. Listing can be turned on and off by placing the LIST and NOLIST parameters anywhere within the parameter file or within the macro library file. In the following example, NOLIST suppresses the listing of each macro in the hugelib macro library. Specifying LIST after the INCLUDE statement restores normal listing to the report file.

NOLIST
INCLUDE /ggs/dirprm/hugelib.mac
LIST
INCLUDE /ggs/dirprm/mdatelib.mac
REPLICAT REP