Re: cl question

Pete !

What version of the operating system are you on that prompting a command and 
then going to a blank area and press F1 gets you the error message info (this 
is GREAT !!) ?

Thanks,

Chuck (on V4R1...)

Pete Hall wrote:

> At 19:28 10/07/1998 , you wrote:
> >i was working on the cl part of my job and came up with a few
> >questions. this is my cl pgm so far based on a layout i have, a few
> >changes ought to be necessary i think.
> >
> >PGM PARM(&OBJ &LIB &OK)
> >DCL &OBJ *CHAR 10
> >DCL &LIB *CHAR 10
> >DCL &TYPE *CHAR 6
> >DCL &OK *CHAR 1 'Y'
> >CHKOBJ &LIB/&OBJ &TYPE
> >MONMSG CPF0000 EXEC(CHGVAR &OK 'N')
> >ENDPGM
> >
> >anyway, my question is how, how does this cl pgm know
> >what &OBJ &LIB &TYPE &OK refer to when this cl pgm has to interact
> >with display files and rpg pgms, etc...
>
> You must tell it when you call the program. If you are checking for more than 
>one type of object, you need to pass the type as a parameter also:
>
> CALL PGM(MYPGM) PARM('MYOBJ' 'MYLIB' '*FILE' &OK)
> or in RPG:
>
> C         CALL    'MYPGM'
> C         PARM    'MYOBJ'       OBJNAM  10
> C         PARM    'MYLIB'       LIBNAM  10
> C         PARM    '*FILE'       OBJTYP   6
> C         PARM    'Y'           RTNOK    1
>
> You cannot initialize &OK in your CL program, since it is a parameter (exists 
>outside of the program).
> Do not check only for CPF0000 on the MONMSG. There are reasons other than 
>object non-existence that can cause an escape message to be issued by CHKOBJ. 
>Prompt the CHKOBJ command, move the cursor to a blank area of the display and 
>press F1. Roll up, and a list of all of the messages that CHKOBJ can issue 
>will be displayed. Some of the other messages relate to bad library name and 
>insufficient authority to see the object. You can also test for specific 
>authority with CHKOBJ, to make sure that you will be able to 
>delete/update/rename/etc, and you can have several MONMSG commands after the 
>CHKOBJ, each testing for different messages, with different actions or branch 
>targets. Use the CPF0000 as the last one, in order to handle unexpected 
>errors, and branch to code that will cause the program to die gracefully.
>
> hth
> Pete
>
> Pete Hall
> peteh@inwave.com
> http://www.inwave.com/~peteh/
>
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