RE: Default for command without default value?

Jim, (new email address?  Guess you found that new job, eh?)

I b*tched and moaned about CRTRPGPGM OPTION parameter before as well. 

To answer your question directly, there is a freeware app out there somewhere (News400?) that allows you to retrieve the source from a command object.  Then you could modify it as you wished.

Dan Bale
IT - AS/400
Handleman Company
248-362-4400  Ext. 4952
D.Bale@Handleman.com
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-------------------------- Original Message --------------------------

-----Original Message-----
From:   JIM LANGSTON [SMTP:JLANGSTON@CELSINC.COM]
Sent:   Monday, July 30, 2001 12:25 PM
To:     MIDRANGE-L
Subject:        Default for command without default value?

Hi,

I tried to add a default value to the CRTRPGPGM command for the OPTION
parameter for *SRCDBG to always compile with debug information.  Error came
back that OPTION didn't have a default parameter, so I could't change it.
Makes sense, but begs the question, how do I add a default value to a
command parameter without a current default parameter?

I would guess I would have to recompile the command, which I can't find for
the system commands, so would have have to create my own command and set all
the defaults I wanted and stick it higher in my library list not to mess
with the system command.  Seems like a bit of a headache getting all the
parameters right though.

Is there an easier way?  If not, I will probably create a CL interface that
calls CRTRPGPGM with the default values I want and create a CRTRPGPGM
pointing to my CL, which I know the subset parameters of.

Regards,

Jim Langston
Programmer/Analyst
Cels Enterprises, Inc.