Re: Command Processing

[thomas@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Doug,

On Fri, 13 July 2001, Douglas Handy wrote:

> >... because it errors out everywhere I've ever been.
> 
> And the moral of the story is that anything that will be called from either a
> command line or SBMJOB should have a *CMD object wrapper.  Commands are *so*
> easy to do, and solve problems with character parm lengths > 32 and passing
> numeric values, among other things.
> 
> I still prefer to use CMD() over RQSDTA(), but then I always submit a command
> and never just a CALL statement...

I create more command wrappers than most do because I definitely agree on that 
point. I've always viewed them as 'prototypes for CL' and had excellent luck. 
It certainly resolves the CMD() vs. RQSDTA() issue.

But the point was to illustrate a difference between CMD() and RQSDTA(). The 
sample code should fail for CMD() and work for RQSDTA(). For demo purposes 
only, in response to the question that was asked.

Tom Liotta 

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