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Though not a directly accessed list of external object types, you could
use the Convert Type (QLICVTTP) API to validate a given object type.

Indirectly you could generate a list by spinning through all hex object
type values, though I sure wouldn't want to do that as a prompter
program...

Bruce Vining

>
>More than once I've come across the need to list all object types that are
>possible on a given release, but I've never found a place on the /400 that I
>could just look it up.
>An example would be where you you want to build a command that allows users
>to do something with objects, and you want to be able to validate the
>'object type' field that they type in.  Where do you look to determine that
>the 'object type' is a valid object type?  Is there a table or a list of
>these somewhere?  I'd think that there would have to be.  How else would the
>WRKOBJ command get it.
>
>TIA,
>
>jte
>
>John Earl         Lighthouse Software Inc.

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