RE: Check object - generic?

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Take a look at the QUSLOBJ API (List objects). Here's a bit from the 
documentation:

> The first 10 characters contain the object name, which may be a simple 
> name, a generic name

You need to create a user space - no big deal - and name it in the call, as 
well as the object specification and the type of info you want (name list 
only is fastest). Let's say you have created a user space QTEMP/JRLIST. 
Your call could be

CALL QUSLOBJ ('JRLIST    QTEMP     ' 'OBJL0100' 'JRNRCV*   *LIBL     ' 
'*JRNRCV   ')

The spaces matter, BTW.

There'll be a location (number of entries) that will tell you how many 
object names were returned - the RTVUSRSPC command can get it for you to test.

Take a look at API concepts in infocenter if you are new to this.

A primary benefit is performance, as it does not go after all the stuff 
that DSPOBJD does. Of course, that might not matter, if there are only a 
few to get.

HTH
Vern

At 02:48 PM 9/1/2004, you wrote:
> RTVOBJD requires a specific name. I'm leaning toward DSPOBJD to an outfile
> and retrieving the number of current records. One or more means the object
> generically exists, etc.
>
> Loyd Goodbar
> Senior programmer/analyst
> BorgWarner
> E/TS Water Valley
> 662-473-5713
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carel Teijgeler [mailto:coteijgeler@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 11:53
> To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Check object - generic?
>
> Lloyd,
>
> What about RTVOBJD into an outfile? I cannot verify at the moment, whether
> it supports OBJTYPE(*ALL), but if it does, ...
>
> Regards,
> Carel Teijgeler
>
> *********** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***********
>
> On 31-8-04 at 13:46 Goodbar, Loyd (ETS - Water Valley) wrote:
>
> >I'd like to generically check whether an object exists from a CL program.
> >For example, I have journal receivers JRNRCV0001, JRNRCV0002, etc. I don't
> >care which journal receiver is found, as long it matches JRNRCV*. Has
> anyone
> >implemented the equivalent of CHKOBJ OBJ(*LIBL/GEN*) OBJTYPE(*BLAH)? I
> >imagine I could take a generic object name and run a DSPOBJD over it; just
> >hoping someone else invented that wheel.
>
>
>
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