Re: Valid AS/400 objects

[Vern Hamberg <hambergv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Al

At 07:26 PM 10/28/97 -0500, you wrote:
>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!

So, even IBM is human! !^)  But we've come to expect more in the AS/400
world, it seems. And that's because Big Blue usually comes through admirably.

Cheers

Vernon Hamberg
Systems Software Programmer
Old Republic National Title Insurance Company
400 Second Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55401
(612) 371-1111 x480


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