Re: Emulate IBM's PDM list selections?

Hi Dan,

I remember asking a similar question a long time ago, and I believe the
answer was no. You'd need to write your own PDM look-alike and then you
could do anything.  There was an article in Midrange Computing about writing
your own WRKPF and Google found it:
http://www.midrangecomputing.com/ftp/prog/94/B940701.txt

On the other hand, perhaps you could come close by having your PDM options
call a program that accepts the parameters and simply stores them until a
final option told it to show them all, e.g.

    PDM option    Command
        T1        call xyz (&l &f &n &t *more) or whatever
        T2        call xyz (&l &f &n &t *last)

Program xyz would return without setting on LR as long as the 5th parameter
was *MORE.  When it's *LAST, it would display the screen full of whatever,
process it, then return with LR on.

hth,
Peter Dow
Dow Software Services, Inc.
909 425-0194 voice
909 425-0196 fax



----- Original Message -----
From: "Bale, Dan" <D.Bale@handleman.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 3:49 PM
Subject: Emulate IBM's PDM list selections?


> Anybody know how to emulate IBM's technique in PDM where making multiple
> entries of the same user-defined list options brings up another screen
> with all the selected entries?  I.e., WRKMBRPDM LIBRARY/QRPGSRC; take
> option 7 (Rename) on, say, four members, press Enter and you get a
> "Rename Members" screen with all four members listed and an opportunity
> to rename them all from the same screen.
>
> I've got some PDM user-defined options that I've written that I'd like
> to use the same way IBM handles multiple selections on the same list.
> Anybody done this?  Is it documented somewhere?
>
> TIA.
>
> Dan Bale
> IT - AS/400
> Handleman Company
> 248-362-4400  Ext. 4952
> D.Bale@Handleman.com
>
>
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