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On 09-Sep-2011 14:34 , Vinay Gavankar wrote:
<<SNIP>> I changed the program as follows, and it seems to work:

PGM PARM(&MBR &FLG)

DCL VAR(&MBR) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(10)
DCL VAR(&FLG) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(1)
DCL VAR(&CMD) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(42)

CHGVAR VAR(&FLG) VALUE('0')
CHGVAR VAR(&CMD) VALUE('*nlvlibl/addpfm literal' +
|| '/literal ' ||&MBR)

CALL PGM(QCMDCHK) PARM(&CMD 42)
MONMSG MSGID(CPF0000 CPD0000) EXEC(DO)
CHGVAR VAR(&FLG) VALUE('1')
ENDDO

EXIT: ENDPGM

The command string I had given intended to exhibit two aspects of the invocation for syntax-check.

One aspect shown is the library list. Consideration for how best the command should be qualified could be important; possibly either *system or *LIBL might be more appropriate than *NLVLIBL.? Since the original message suggested that some add member activity would occur later using the &MBR value, the validation of which command would best match the eventual command invocation.

A second aspect was that the FILE() parameter could be specified both as any valid literals with a name qualifier and positionally. Note however that the parameter could have just one value with the defaulted library, such as FILE(A) instead of FILE(A/A).

A third aspect which I failed to explicitly include was the MBR() as a named parameter; instead, that was shown positionally. To best validate the MBR() parameter, the value passed should be placed inside that named parameter instead of positionally. Specifying the parameter name enables detecting the difference between the invocations: "addpfm X MBR(Y Z)" and "addpfm X Y Z".

Thus, I might instead choose to set the command string to:
VALUE('*nlvlibl/addpfm X/Y MBR(' *CAT &MBR *CAT ')')

Note: Using *CAT prevents potential difficulties for CCSID translation for the 'bar' characters.

FWiW I prefer to monitor only for the expected conditions. For the given command string only CPF0006 should be expected, and anything as an unexpected condition might best effect the unmonitored escape handler; i.e. instead of a coded assumption that the MBR(&MBR) is invalid due to an unknown\unexpected error. Also note that the CPD0000 range of messages are unlikely to be issued as an escape or status message, even if there were other possible messages; I would remove that from the MSGID() of MONMSG.

Regards, Chuck

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