RE: Validating a member name

If it's entered from the screen would the DDS keyword check(VN) do it?
Check for valid name.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fisher, Don [mailto:DRF@HeiligMeyers.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 1999 1:16 PM
> To: 'Midrange List'
> Subject: Validating a member name
> 
> 
> I don't suppose any of you can tell me how to validate a 
> member name without
> coding my own routine?  I have an application where a member 
> name will be
> entered and I want to make sure the system will take it 
> before I submit the
> job to execute the command that will use the member name.  
> 
> I have checked the manuals and even wrote a CL program to 
> attempt an ADDPFM
> command to a file that does not exist.  Trouble with that is 
> the CPD0078
> error message is a diagnostic and not picked up by MONMSG.
> 
> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Donald R. Fisher, III
> Project Manager
> Heilig-Meyers Furniture Company
> (804) 784-7500 ext. 2124
> Don.Fisher@HeiligMeyers.com
> 
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