RE: Retrieving Command like F9

["Reeve Fritchman" <reeve@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Do this:

Dcl &cmdstring *char 2000
Chgvar &cmdstring '?YourCMD  ??parm1(X) ?-parm2(Y)'
Call qcmdchk(&cmdstring 2000)

QCMDCHK will return the completed command string.  You can use conditional
prompting ("??", "?-", etc.) to control what's seen/changeable by the user.
If you remove the initial "?", not prompting takes place.  Review the
QCMDCHK API for details.

-reeve

> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Hood, Chester
> Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 1:01 PM
> To: 'midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: Retrieving Command like F9
> 
> I have a need in a CL program to capture the complete command that was
entered to execute the CL
> program.  What I think I am looking
> for is a way to programmatically "press F9" and capture the result.  I
cannot find any interface to do
> this .... is it possible?
> Some obscure API maybe?
> 
> A bit more information ... there is a command definition for this CL
program that includes
> prompting for optional operands.  The
> user enters the command name and is prompted for the other operands; in
the job log only the
> "originally" entered operands are
> present; those that were optional are not in the job log, so since F9 uses
the joblog to retrieve
> previous command, it seems F9
> would not retrieve all operands, however, this seems to be in conflict
with normal interactive
> operation.  For this specific case:
> operator enters "T1 DEVICE(TAP02)" and is prompted for OPTION.  Joblog
shows "T1 DEVICE(TAP02)"
> but as CL program begins it is with
> "T1 DEVICE(TAP02) OPTION(A)" because operator was prompted for OPTION and
filled it in.
> 
> Thanks for any advice ... Chester Hood
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