RE: Emulate IBM's PDM list selections? -- MIDRANGE-L

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Since I have very little knowledge or experience with Ops Nav, and have
not seen any V4 incarnations of it, I don't know if you were joking on
my "spare time" comment or not.  If yes, well, we'll just have to wait
until I can spring for a laptop with a wireless link to our AS/400, so I
can burn every idle spare moment to the task.  Contributions accepted.
<g>

If it's a serious question, and I've come to understand that today's Ops
Nav is not my father's Ops Nav (a meager shot on Oldsmobile's line), is
it possible to do this type of work from Ops Nav?

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

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> Are you also thinking of adding add-in's to Op's Nav?
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> Thanks for the replies, Pete & Peter.
>
> Pete, I was referring to actually doing this in a PDM list.
> Specifically, I have a utility to move members from one source file to
> another, with the ability to change the name of members being moved.
> Also, keeps the same source's last changed date & time.
>
> Anyway, I created a PDM user option 'MM' and it calls the MOVESRCMBR
> program with parameters FromLib, FromFile, FromMbr, ToLib, ToFile,
> ToMember, and Replace, the first six of which are using PDM
> substitution
> "variables" &L, &F, &N, &L, &F, &N.  The utility actually saves the
> members to a save file and, in the simplest scenario, restores them to
> the target file.
>
> When moving several members, it becomes quickly apparent that
> performance is a major bugaboo when using this technique one member at
> a
> time vs. doing them all together.
>
> Therefore, Peter, I like your technique.  While not as "glamorous" as
> the IBM "group" screens, it certainly would be the better option to
> what
> I have now.
>
> You've brought up another idea that I'd like to pursue in my *spare*
> (three kids, two in boy scouts, one in girl scouts, one kid in soccer,
> bowling once per week, and a homeowner, yeah right! <g>) time.
> Building
> a PDM clone.  At least a WRKOBJPDM clone.  Our five branch AS/400s
> have
> no PDM for obvious reasons (no development on these boxes).  But, what
> a
> pain to have to suffer through WRKOBJ and not have PDM-like options to
> use.  Oh well.
>
> Dan Bale
> IT - AS/400
> Handleman Company
> 248-362-4400  Ext. 4952
> D.Bale@Handleman.com