Re: UIM menus and job log entries

["Ed Fishel" <edfishel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Vern,

>Need some help, y'all. I've made a UIM menu that runs a number of
commands.
>When I select an option, I'd like to have the command in the job log and
>the command history, the same way that, say, the IBM menu CMDCMD does.
>
>Anyone know a way with standard UIM to get the command into the job log
>and/or the F9 history?

This sample CL program shows how to do this with command string up to 32
characters long. If you want to use longer commands you may have to convert
this to another language.

PGM        PARM(&COMMAND)
DCL        VAR(&COMMAND) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(32)
DCL        VAR(&CMDLEN) TYPE(*DEC) LEN(15 5) VALUE(32)
DCL        VAR(&KEYVAR) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(4)

SNDPGMMSG  MSG(&COMMAND) TOPGMQ(*EXT) MSGTYPE(*RQS) +
             KEYVAR(&KEYVAR)

RCVMSG     PGMQ(*EXT) MSGTYPE(*RQS) MSGKEY(&KEYVAR) +
             RMV(*NO) /* Cause request message to be +
             an old message so that it will not be +
             processed by QCMD when the user returns +
             there. This also allows the command to be +
             retrieved to a command line. */

CALL       PGM(QSYS/QCMDEXC) PARM(&COMMAND &CMDLEN)

ENDPGM

The way you use the program, CMDXXX, is to change the ACTION attribute on
the MI tags from something like this:
    ACTION='CMD WRKSPLF'
to this:
    ACTION='CMD CALL PGM(your-lib/CMDXXX) PARM(WRKSPLF)'


Ed Fishel,
edfishel@us.ibm.com