Re: overriding IBM's options on PDM

Hi Mark,

Well, actually you can do things in user-defined PDM options based on the
object type.  For something like a compile, you'd need to write a CL program
to accept options from the PDM option, e.g.

    PDM option AB could be CALL XYZ (&L &N &T)

and program XYZ could do whatever it wants based on the object type (&T).

Granted, it's a little more work than separating commands by some delimiter,
but not too difficult.  And there are other variables besides &T -- check
the help when defining a PDM option.

Peter Dow
Dow Software Services, Inc.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark S. Waterbury" <mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 2:53 PM
Subject: Re: overriding IBM's options on PDM


> The "real" problem, in my opinion, is that even if you could "override"
> numeric PDM options, what IBM does is "different" depending on
> what "member type" or "object type" you place the option next to.
>
> IMHO, Ken Kelley and the gang at Advanced Systems Concepts (ASC)
> "got this right" with their Abstract/Probe+ product -- it has 3-character
> "options", and you COULD override "built-in" options, whether numeric
> or not... and, it even lets you define different actions to be performed
for
>  the same "option", based on object type... and you could even define
> more than one command to be performed, separated by ";" I believe...
> so it is more like a true "macro" capability... Very Nice!
>
> Too bad IBM never incorporated some of those "good ideas" in PDM.



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