Re: Command validation program

["James W. Kilgore" <qappdsn@xxxxxxx>]

jovic@calcna.ab.ca wrote:

>
>
>         Well ... if you must know, there are two reasons:
>
> 1. That's a kind of solution which most of first year college students
> could come up with. I'm looking for something nicer and more AS/400
> specific; I still believe, there have to be some beauty in anything one
> does.

Now, now ... be nice <g>

>
>
> 2. That will force me to change all main programs also (to adjust number
> and types of parameters, if I put it in the first position), or it would
> force me to receive all parameters in validation programs (if I place it
> in the last position), which would further lead to more than one
> validation program (not all comands have same number of parameters, and I
> validate only first two) ........ I don't wont to confuse other
> developers; they already have enough troubles with me because of 1. :)))))

Are you looking for the first level command? ie menu option/command line command
or the most recent caller?The reason I ask is because I ran into a similar
situation following of the "modular" design and with code here and code there 
and
code all over the place that was "black boxed" I wanted to print/display the
command which was using the lower level function that performed the lower level
print/display.

I would really like to have created a caller black box to let the low level
function know who was ringing the bell and I finally had to retrofit the low
levels to accept a caller parameter and the intermediates to accept and pass on
the same.  Not nearly as "artfull" as I would have liked.  It would have been a
lot easier if there was a CL equivalent to ?proc?.  Hard coding a name is a
definate no-no in our shop....we like to change our mind when adhereing to the
most recent "convention" gets us painted into a corner ;-)

>
>
> huh...?
>
> Take care,
> Vanya
>
>
>
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