RE: Change a Users PDM Options?

Sure.  "F16=User options" are stored in a file.  Unless this is changed in
"F18=Change Defaults", the file is QAUOOPT in library QGPL, member QAUOOPT.
If you can't assume this, then (short of signing on as the user whose PDM
User Options you're trying to View/Change) you'll have to get the identity
of the user options file from the user's profile.  The only way to get the
information out of the user's profile object is to use the DMPSYSOBJ
command.  Without going into all the gory details of that <g>, I have a
"utility" that creates a data area containing all of the information found
in "F18=Change Defaults".  Email me privately if you'd like the source to
create the utility.

Oh, completing the answer...  Once you know the User Options file name, you
can view/change it just like any other file, i.e., use DBU, an RPG
application, etc.  

One caveat however, if you *add* options to an existing list of options, the
options you add will appear at the bottom of the list when you view them via
F16=User Options, and not necessarily in option ID sequence like you would
expect.  Workarounds:  Clear the options file member you're adding new
options to and build it from scratch.  *OR*  From the F16=User Options
display, type a 2=Change for each of the added options and press Enter for
each of these; PDM then somehow "recognizes" the options and puts them in
the proper sequence in the list.

HTH,
- Dan Bale

> -----Original Message-----
> From: keith mcintosh [SMTP:keith_eh@yahoo.ca]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 12:20 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Change a Users PDM Options?
> 
> 
> Is it possible to View/Change a users PDM options,
> "F16=User options" within PDM, without signing on with
> their profile or having them view/change it.
> 
> If so Where/How?
> 
> TIA.
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