Re: QCMDEXC question

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

At 07:01 AM 1/8/98 -0700, you wrote:
>I am making a call to QCMDEXC from an RPG program. The
>command being executed is CRTPF. I recieve a CPF7302 level
>40 message 'File ABC not created in library XYZ. I need away to
>monitor and ignore the message if the file already exists; I plan
>to overwrite the previous file.
>
Two alternatives.  You can use the LO indicator, which would indicate that
the request given to QCMDEXC failed.  It would not indicate why it failed,
although you may not care.

If you want some more sophisticated coding, you can do a call to a CL
program, do a CHKOBJ for the file, and then create it if needed.
Alternatively, if this is a QTEMP work file, where you needed a fresh copy,
you could do a DLTF monitored with a CPF2105 if not found.

The call to CL will not perform as well as the call to QCMDEXC, which may
or may not be an issue.  (Interactive use probably doesn't matter, once per
record in a million record file would hurt.)

Al



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