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  • Subject: RE: Choice Programs
  • From: "Goodbar, Loyd (AFS-Water Valley)" <LGoodbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 10:54:58 -0500

Then does the command analyzer actually perform validation on that
parameter? Or is the choice list merely a "suggestion" of what could be
entered? :)

Loyd

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bvining@VNET.IBM.COM [SMTP:bvining@VNET.IBM.COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 1998 8:56 AM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Choice Programs
> 
> Actually you have up to 32 bytes of displayable text that can be shown
> per entry and you have complete control of what data you would like
> that to be.  In my example I used language id, one blank, and the
> desriptive text for the language id.  You could certainly use a 10 byte
> member name, a blank, and then say the first 20 bytes of member
> desription (or, which I would not recommend, get fancy by logically
> combining multiple choice options though you would have a definite
> dependency on Command Analyzer formatting decisions).
> 
> Bruce
> 
> >
> >The only drawback I've found so far (and I could be wrong with this) is
> that
> >you only can code the actual values; you can't get a value and
> description
> >(for instance, a member name and its member text).
> >
> >Loyd
> >
> 
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