QCMDEXC Wrapper (was: RE: OVRPRTF within RPGILE)

I could not resist piping in here.
Why bother writing a wrapper at all?  Especially with the EVAL op code.

EVAL     CMD = 'OVRPRTF .....'
CALL      'QCMDEXC
PARM                         CMD
PARM                         CMDLEN           15 5

Seems simple enough.
Am I missing something here?


Joe Giusto II
Programmer/Analyst
Ritz Camera
Beltsville, MD
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 -----Original Message-----
From:   owner-midrange-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]
On Behalf Of bmorris@ca.ibm.com
Sent:   Tuesday, May 29, 2001 8:17 PM
To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject:        Re: OVRPRTF within RPGILE


Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 12:34:46 -0500
From: Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@fwi.com>

>rob@dekko.com wrote:
>> One of the reasons I've dropped QCMDEXC like a hot potato and use system
()
>> exclusively.
>
>Where can I find out more about this system() you're talking about?  Is
>it something that already exists and I use it like my own procedures?
>
>BTW, my ExecCmd procedure calls QCAPCMD to execute a system command.
<snip>
I guess that since overrides rarely have exceptions, maybe a good
scheme would be to use system() for overrides and a QCMDEXC or QCAPCMD
wrapper for every other commands that might get exceptions.
<snip>

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