Re: List of object types

At 08:24 AM 2/6/1998 CST, you wrote:
>Though not a directly accessed list of external object types, you could
>use the Convert Type (QLICVTTP) API to validate a given object type.
>
>Indirectly you could generate a list by spinning through all hex object
>type values, though I sure wouldn't want to do that as a prompter
>program...
>
>Bruce Vining
>
>>
>>More than once I've come across the need to list all object types that are
>>possible on a given release, but I've never found a place on the /400 that I
>>could just look it up.
>>An example would be where you you want to build a command that allows users
>>to do something with objects, and you want to be able to validate the
>>'object type' field that they type in.  Where do you look to determine that
>>the 'object type' is a valid object type?  Is there a table or a list of
>>these somewhere?  I'd think that there would have to be.  How else would the
>>WRKOBJ command get it.

We need this, too. It seems that one could do what Bruce suggests to build
a table or data queue for use in a prompter program—or even build the
structure eventually needed _by_ the prompter. You could do this at each
new release and periodically thereafter, to cover yourself when IBM makes
mid-release additions. I know I'm going to try it here!

Cheers

Vernon Hamberg
Systems Software Programmer
Old Republic National Title Insurance Company
400 Second Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN  55401-2499
(612) 371-1111 x480


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