RE: Menu Option Prompting

Cool, it worked!!!  Thanks a bunch.


Dave Parnin
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Nishikawa Standard Company
Topeka, IN  46571
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Precede the CPYSPLF command (or any other command) with a "?".

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Afternoon everyone,

My question is:  How can you prompt a command from a menu option?

The details:
In an effort to tighten security we removed command line access from all
non-I.T. users awhile back.  One of the things that a person in
Accounting does once a year at budgeting time is to run a report, do a
CPYSPLF to get that report into a database file, and then extract the
file into Excel so that they can play with the numbers to create
projections.  This is an iterative process--run the report, do CPYSPLF,
get it into Excel, etc.  I executed the command for her the other day
but she's going to need to do this a few more times before management
agrees on the budget.  I can put CPYSPLF on a menu without a problem but
can I get it to come up as if I had type CPYSPLF on a command line and
pressed F4 to prompt?


Dave Parnin
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Nishikawa Standard Company
Topeka, IN  46571
daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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