Re: Valid AS/400 objects

["Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@xxxxxxx>]

At 01:18 PM 10/28/97 -0600, you wrote:
>
>Do you know of a way to get a dynamic list of the valid AS/400 object
>types? Are they found in some message, or is there another way? I'd like to
>use this in a choice program for commands that deal with objects, without
>having to change the code for each release.
>
There is no good solution.  What I have done in the past is to prompt the
OBJTYPE parameter from DSPOBJD, and print the screens.  However, this is
not foolproof.  We recently found an object type that IBM added by PTF to
an existing CISC release, and DSPOBJD was not updated!

Al



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