RE: Default for command without default value?

You could create a command by the same name or a similar name that supplies
the defaults you want and put it in a library above qsys on the system
portion of the library list.   

> -----Original Message-----
> From: JIM LANGSTON [mailto:JLANGSTON@CELSINC.COM]
> Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 10:16 AM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: Default for command without default value?
> 
> 
> Yes, this would work for me, but then the other programmers 
> here would have
> to do the same thing.  There are 3 programmers here and it 
> would be nice to
> have something that would make a standard so we don't forget. 
>  Something
> that could be done in one place for everyone.
> 
> Jim Langston
> Programmer/Analyst
> Cels Enterprises, Inc.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com 
> [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On
> Behalf Of jerickson@800.com
> Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 9:36 AM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: Default for command without default value?
> 
> 
> Create a User-Defined Option in PDM such as:
> Option  Command
> CR    ? SBMJOB CMD(CRTRPGPGM PGM(&L/&N) SRCFILE(&L/QRPGSRC) 
> OPTION(*SRCDBG))
> JOB(&N)
> Then from PDM enter CR for the option at the desired RPG 
> Source member and
> you'll be prompted the the submit job with the CRTRPGPGM command.
> Regards,
> Jon A. Erickson
> Sr. Programmer Analyst
> 800.COM Inc.
> 1516 NW Thurman St
> Portland, OR  97209-2517
> 
> Direct: 503.944.3613
> Fax: 503.943.9313
> Web: http://www.800.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: JIM LANGSTON [mailto:JLANGSTON@CELSINC.COM]
> Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 9:25 AM
> 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.
> 
> 
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