Re: Command Processing

On Friday 13 July 2001 3:00 pm, Bill Meecham wrote:
> Hello all
> I would like to process a command the same way that PDM does.  Take an
> option, display the command for modification, submit (or process
> interactively).  Using the PDM options to determine if the command should
> be submitted or not is not important.  The part that I want to be able to
> do is to show the command and then submit it.
>
> There are multiple IS departments and each uses their own standard
> parameter settings for the create commands.  I'd like to use one option
> that will detect the type of object being generated, call the appropriate
> command with the parameters already set to the appropriate defaults.  I can
> do this with no problem interactively but I can't get the command once
> displayed to submit to a batch job.  I've tried using sbmjob and prompting
> that with the create filled in without success.
>
> Any suggestions?
> TIA
> Bill

Hi Bill

You can use the QCMDCHK API to prompt the command you've initally set up. 
That returns your fully prompted command, amended as necessary. It's easy 
then to drop that variable into the CMD() parm of SBMJOB. QCMDCHK takes two 
parms - command string and length, just like QCMDEXC.

Regards, Martin 

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