Re: Writing Commands, how-to manual where?

[Pat Barber <mboceanside@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That sounds right nice.. how long did it take you
to put it together ??? You can do some pretty neat
stuff with commands but as you say, not a lot of
folks take the time to learn the "art form".



Douglas Handy wrote:

> I actually do it the other way around.  By keeping a copybook of commonly 
> used
> keywords, I can whip out a CMD object very, very fast.  Then I wrote a simple
> utility which accepts a command object name as input and bunch of option
> settings, and it generates the CL program for me from a variety of templates
> generating all the DCL's, handling list processing, setting up any overrides
> needed, and optionally does stuff like setting up OPNQRYF processing, submitting
> itself to batch, yada, yada.
>
> The command processing capabilities of OS/400 has always seemed woefully
> under-utilized by application programmers, IMHO.