Re: Validating a member name

[Shahid Yaqoob <shahidyaqoob@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

Use CHKOBJ command 

CHKOBJ OBJ(&LIB/&FIL) OBJTYPE(*FILE) MBR(&MBR)
MONMSG (CPF9801) Exec(....)

Shahid Yaqoob
BPCS Technical Consultant 
Arabian Computer Projects Ltd 

--- "Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@ibm.net> wrote:
> At 04:16 PM 09/08/1999 -0400, you wrote:
> >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.
> I would define my own (phoney) command object with
> one parameter, defined 
> as *NAME.  Then format the command and attempt to
> run it through 
> QCMDCHK.  I think that this would correctly analyze
> if your name is valid 
> by AS/400 syntax.
> 
> Al
> 
> 
> 
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