RE: Writing Commands, how-to manual where?

[Mark Phippard <MarkP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

OK, that makes more sense.  I thought you were just using the command 
itself and it had that as a special value.

But, yeah you are right, PARM is just a CL command and has help like all 
the rest.

Mark



midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 08/20/2004 04:51:19 PM:

> Actually,
> 
> I'm looking at the source for the command itself.  One of the parameters 
was
> defined:
>         Parm     FILE          Q0001             +
>                  Min( 1 )                        +
>                  File( *UNSPFD )                 +
>                  Choice( *NONE )                 +
>                  Prompt( 'File' )
> 
> 
> The *UNSPFD isn't mentioned in the CL programming manual.  However, as 
Doug
> suggested, the online help for the PARM command provides more detail
> including all possible values for the FILE parameter of the PARM command 
;-)
> 
> Charles
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mark Phippard [mailto:MarkP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 4:42 PM
> > To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> > Subject: Re: Writing Commands, how-to manual where?
> > 
> > 
> > A command keyword is whatever the writer of the command wants 
> > it to be. It 
> > isn't something IBM could document (unless its their command 
> > in which case 
> > it should be in the docs for that command).
> > 
> > As someone else pointed out, ideally there would be F1 help 
> > on the parm to 
> > explain the special values.
> > 
> > Mark
> > 
> > midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 08/20/2004 04:25:35 PM:
> > 
> > > All,
> > > 
> > > While the CL programming manual has a section about 
> > defining your own
> > > commands.  It doesn't seem to go into much detail.
> > > 
> > > For example, I downloaded some code that had the following 
> > keyword for 
> > one
> > > of the parameters: FILE(*UNSPFD).
> > > 
> > > While the CL programming manual mentions the FILE keyword, 
> > it doesn't 
> > tell
> > > me what the *UNSPFD means or what the other options may be.
> > > 
> > > Is there another source for this info?
> > > 
> > 
> > 
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