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I've written a POP that would always prompt unless a user actually enters the parm on the command line (i.e. CRTLIB TEMP). I believe it was combination of MIN(1) on the PARM keyword of the command source and ?? in the return string of the prompt override program. If they didn't prompt it with F4 and didn't fill in a parm, POP would populate the default value and bring up the prompt. Elvis -----Original Message----- Subject: RE: Prompt Override Program example using date & time? But there are some commands that, if you were to just type in the command without any parameters and you press Enter, it would prompt the command anyway. I.e., type in just CRTLIB on the command line, and press Enter. The CRTLIB command is prompted. I see this same type of behavior desirable in my command. > -----Original Message----- > From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx / Douglas Handy > Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 12:28 PM <snip> > > PS - A common misconception is that a POP will supply a default value > for a command. The truth is that a POP is only called when a command > is prompted. If you run a command without prompting, the POP is never > called and thus cannot supply values for any keywords. So don't make > the command processing program reliant on always having an explicit > value -- you still may want a default such as *SAME for CHGxxx type > commands or something like *TODAY for a date keyword on other > commands.
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