Re: Command programming

Same here. Kind of like "Doctor, it hurts when I slap myself.", "Don't
slap yourself". Which is why programmers generally aren't very good
testers -- we know what NOT to do.

vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Peter

True, but it still lets a user type decimal points - the good thing is,

it does not matter, because the number passed in does not have the decimals
- it is still only a *DEC (3 0)

I'd never tried putting decimal points into a number I knew was going to

be an integer - interesting!

Vern
-------------- Original message --------------
From: "Peter Dow (ML)" <maillist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Dan,

1) For v5r2 try chapter 9 of
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r2/ic2924/books/c4157215.pdf

2) PARM KWD(TEST) TYPE(*DEC) LEN(3 0) RANGE(001 999) should
do what you want.

*Peter Dow* /
Dow Software Services, Inc.
909 793-9050
pdow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx /

Dan wrote:

Question 1: I am trying to find the IBM reference manual for command
programming on InfoCenter (V5R3). I didn't find the PDF for it, so I
searched for "choice program" see if that would point me to it. The

search

takes me to the "Qualifier Definition (QUAL)" page, but this isn't what

I'm

looking for, and I was hoping that I'd get a link that would take me to

the

table of contents for the manual but I am unable to navigate to it.
Frustrating!

Since I can't figure out Question 1:
Question 2: I want to define a parameter on a command as a 3-digit

integer,

with a range of 001 - 999. If I define it as TYPE(*DEC), the definition
allows non-integer decimals (i.e., 9.123, 147.9, etc.). I tried the

integer

types *INT2/4 & *UINT2/4, but those don't play nice with the LENgth

value of

3. I would like to avoid having to write a command validation program.
Ideas?

TIA,
Dan

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