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  3. August 2006

Menu Option Prompting





Afternoon everyone,

My question is:  How can you prompt a command from a menu option?

The details:
In an effort to tighten security we removed command line access from all
non-I.T. users awhile back.  One of the things that a person in Accounting
does once a year at budgeting time is to run a report, do a CPYSPLF to get
that report into a database file, and then extract the file into Excel so
that they can play with the numbers to create projections.  This is an
iterative process--run the report, do CPYSPLF, get it into Excel, etc.  I
executed the command for her the other day but she's going to need to do
this a few more times before management agrees on the budget.  I can put
CPYSPLF on a menu without a problem but can I get it to come up as if I had
type CPYSPLF on a command line and pressed F4 to prompt?


Dave Parnin
--
Nishikawa Standard Company
Topeka, IN  46571
daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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