Re: STRPDM Option 12...Doesn't Work

Chuck:
I would agree/accept/use most of what you are saying.
(Habit is my excuse.) But I Beg to differ the last point.
Anytime I'm on the phone and a user has to "listen very carefully to
what I am about to tell you" I opt for the single STRPDM, now take option
1, now enter (library), now enter a 12.
If at any point along the way it doesn't result in what I expect, I start
over.

Telling the user to enter "WRKMBRPDM QUSRSYS/QATOCPPSCR"
would surely result in "whaa?". Especially with the QUSRSYS.
Did you you mean QUSERSYS or QUSERSYST?
It just gets really silly. And I have really experienced that with
QUSRSYS.

Thanks for the response!

Bill Roehmer





From: CRPence <crpbottle@xxxxxxxxx>
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: 01/08/2016 12:26 PM
Subject: Re: STRPDM Option 12...Doesn't Work
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On 08-Jan-2016 10:06 -0700, broehmer wrote:

<<SNIP>>
The use of STRPDM instead of WRKMBRPDM for me is if I'm moving around
different libraries and/or different members for a quick view.

FWiW: Not meant to suggest the noted workflow is flawed, merely to
explain why I find the rationale potentially flawed, at least from
another perspective.

WRKMBRPDM enter gets one into the last library/file used with listed
members and STRPDM gives one the option to switch libraries.

WRKMBRPDM->Enter gives /default/ behaviour of WRKMBRPDM FILE(*PRV).
The default for WRKMBRPDM can be modified easily enough however. And
IMO, much easier accomplished, than when navigating via STRPDM. And if
not arguably easier, then at least surely with fewer /panel/
interactions; panel presentations, which I find to be mostly a nuisance.
The prompted ?WRKMBRPDM is nearly identical to the "Specify Members to
Work With" panel of the STRPDM; if one were inclined to step from
panel-to-panel, consider that the navigation of STRPDM->3->Enter is
little different than the ?WRKMBRPDM->Enter navigation.

WRKLIBPDM is similar but WRKLIBPDM enter just shows the last library
with no list of libraries.

If the previous invocation was a list, so too would be the effect of
the *PRV defaulted Library (LIB) specification; e.g. WRKLIBPDM *LIBL or
WRKLIBPDM Q* preceding a WRKLIBPDM *PRV will have the later request
presenting the same list of libraries shown /previously/.

WRKLIBPDM without prompt is kind of useless for me.

Prompting is mostly useless for me. If I will know what
library\libraries I want to present after having navigated
STRPDM->1->Enter, then whatever I will eventually specify on the Library
prompt is no different than what I would have specified as the first
argument of the WRKLIBPDM from the command-line; e.g. if I want a list
of all libraries with name prefix of QSYS, I just type WRKLIBPDM QSYS*
and press Enter for which I am taken directly to the list of libraries
from the command-line without having visited any prompts.

WRKMBRPDM is by far the most productive, in my opinion, if I'm on
but difficult for a customer to key versus STRPDM option 1, option
12.

I would rather direct a customer to type just a single string of
characters and to then press Enter, than to ask them to navigate through
multiple screens; saves me great amount of hassle:

• WRKMBRPDM QUSRSYS/QATOCPPSCR
• Enter

vs

• STRPDM
• 3
• type QATOCPPSCR in the first entry field
• type QUSRSYS in the second entry field
• Enter

Anyone remember GO PROGRAM?

That is broken [empty] for me on my v7r1 system because I am a User
Class (USRCLS) of *USER vs *PGMR; I would have expected a line showing
something like (non-programmers are presented this empty list) to
appear.? Nevertheless, [what would appear for a programmer-class user
as] the option-1 "Programmer Menu" is still available via the Start
Programmer Menu (STRPGMMNU) command or the CALL QPGMMENU command
request; I suspect that _may be_ to what was alluded anyhow, vs the
PROGRAM menu.?