How to install updates on Progress-4GL programs - installation

Question

Good afternoon,
In my company, we are regularly doing updates on customers' systems, all Progress-4GL technology. Currently we are doing all this manually, and I'd like to automate this.
The following actions are needed:
Take a dump (*.df) of the current database
Upload modifications to the database (*.df files)
compile *.w and *.p files.
Is there a tool that does all that (together with zipping/unzipping *.w, *.p and *.i files), or do I need to create such a tool myself?
In the latter case, what are the commandline commands for the mentioned actions:
Take a dump (*.df) of the current database
Upload modifications to the database (*.df files)
compile *.w and *.p files.

Answer 1

If you're familiar with ANT, the take a look at the PCT plugin for ANT:
https://github.com/Riverside-Software/pct
This makes is easy to create a delta.df file between the "new" full DF and the current database, e.g.:
<PCTDumpIncremental destFile="temp/delta.df" dlcHome="${dlc}"
debugLevel="2" activeIndexes="0" removeEmptyDFFile="true" msgBufferSize="${Mm}" >
<SourceDB dbname="temp/ref-SmartDB" singleUser="true" />
<TargetDB dbname="${smartdb}" dbDir="${smartdbdir}" singleUser="${smartdbsingleuser}"/>
</PCTDumpIncremental>
and then load the delta.df into the current application DB:
<PCTLoadSchema srcFile="temp/delta.df" dlcHome="${dlc}" onlineChanges="true" callbackClass="rssw.pct.AbstractLoadCallback" msgBufferSize="${Mm}" commitWhenErrors="false">
<DBConnectionSet refid="smartdbset" />
</PCTLoadSchema>
and then compile the application:
<PCTCompile destDir="${installroot}" graphicalMode="true" dlcHome="${dlc}"
md5="true" minSize="false" cpinternal="${cpinternal}" cpColl="${cpcoll}" cpstream="${cpstream}"
compileUnderscore="true" inputchars="32000" baseDir="${installroot}"
token="4000" progPerc="10" assemblies="${assemblies}">
<fileset dir="${installroot}" casesensitive="false">
<include name="Ccs/**/*.cls"/>
<include name="Consultingwerk/**/*.cls"/>
<include name="Consultingwerk/**/*.p"/>
<include name="Consultingwerk/**/*.w"/>
<include name="Setup/**/*.p"/>
<include name="src/**/*.p"/>
</fileset>
<propath>
<pathelement path="${installroot}/." />
<pathelement path="${installroot}/src" />
<pathelement path="${installroot}/Consultingwerk/Studio/ProdictDumpHack/src" />
<pathelement path="${dlc}/gui/netlib/OpenEdge.Net.pl" />
</propath>
<DBConnectionSet refid="smartdbset" />
</PCTCompile>
ANT and PCT are included in OpenEdge from 11.7 on. Since you're on 11.6, you'll have to bring your own ANT and PCT.