Re: Using Retrieve Command Definition (QCDRCMDD) API

Hello Steve,

I've send you a code example of the DEST0200 format privately.

As for the documentation -- not knowing what version you were using -- I'd
say that the V5R1 version of the QCDRCMDD API documentation probably was
written by someone who had stayed out in the sun much to long. The V5R2
version seems to have undergone a serious cleanup process, missing
information has been added and the errors have been removed. I don't know if
you'd agree but to me that version is much easier to understand.

Good luck!

Carsten Flensburg


----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Landess" <steve_landess@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "RPG400 List" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 12:07 AM
Subject: Using Retrieve Command Definition (QCDRCMDD) API


Hello,

I want to use the QCDRCMDD API in an RPG program with the DEST0200 format.
I found and dowloaded a program that works using the DEST0100 format, which
returns the command information in a variable. However, I want to use the
DEST0200 format to create the output in a stream file in the IFS.

In looking at the documentation for this API on the Info Center, I'm
confused about how to code and use the data structure for the DEST0200
format.  In the RPG400-L archives I found an example by Bruce Vining, but
his example is just a command line call like this:

call qcdrcmdd ('CRTBNDRPG QSYS' x'000000000000000000000000000000000000000
461000000000000000000000061c3c3c3' DEST0200 ' ' CMDD0100 0)

If anyone has any working code that you would share, that would be nice, but
what is more important to me is to be able to interpret the Info Center
documentation on _any_ API and translate that to working code.  It almost
seems like IBM has gone to great lengths to obfuscate this process.  It
shouldn't be this difficult to understand.