RE: Emulate IBM's PDM list selections?

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But I'm not creating any subfile to enter options on listed items.  I'm
using, in this case, WRKMBRPDM and using a user-defined option.  For
example, when you use option 7=Rename on several members and press
Enter, you get another screen titled "Rename Members" with all your
selections.  I want to use 'MM' on several members on the WRKMBRPDM
panel, press Enter, and get another screen titled "Move Members" with
all my "MM" selections.

The application would, I imagine, upon the first instance of it being
called from a PDM list, would then have to interrogate the rest of the
PDM list to see if the same option was entered for other list items.
And then be able to clear the entries after successful completion.
Mebbe it's time to bug the MI400 list.

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Naughton [SMTP:mnaughton@juddwire.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 1:25 PM
> To:   midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: Emulate IBM's PDM list selections?
>
> We do something similar, except we only use it for the "delete"
> option.
> But the method is basically the same -- read through the original
> subfile,
> filling a second subfile with the records you want to display; then
> when
> you're done, display the second subfile and do what you want to do.
>
> midrange-l@midrange.com writes:
> >At 17:49 09/10/2001, Dan Bale wrote:
> >>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.
> >
> >Maybe I don't understand what you're asking, but I've done that lots
> of
> >time with RPG, by executing a READC loop with a select or case
> structure
> >that branches to a load routine for a new subfile, one for delete,
> one for
> >rename, etc. Each load subroutine sets a switch telling the program
> that
> >it
> >needs to be displayed, and once the READC loop finishes, the subfile
> >display subroutines whose switches are set are executed, one by one.
> >Pete Hall
> >pbhall@execpc.com
> >http://www.execpc.com/~pbhall/