Re: Parameter Substitution for Qualified Parameter.

Mike -

Regards,
Steve Landess
Austin, Texas
(512) 423-0935

To: <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 3:26 PM
Subject: Parameter Substitution for Qualified Parameter.

I've never had cause to do this before and I can't find any examples,
and I'm not a command expert, so could someone please help...........



I'm using the EASY400 software to generate emails from our iSeries
application. The command doesn't really matter.



The command I'm using is EMLSTMF which allows up to 50 recipients to
receive an email with attachments.

Here is the definition from the CMD source for the TO parameter:



0013.00              PARM       KWD(TO) TYPE(QUAL1) MIN(1) MAX(50) +


0014.00                           PROMPT('Recipients')


0015.00  QUAL1:      QUAL       TYPE(*NAME) LEN(4) RSTD(*YES) DFT(*TO) +


0016.00                           SPCVAL((*TO 0) (*CC 1) (*BCC 2))


0017.00              QUAL       TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(50) MIN(1) +


0018.00                           PROMPT('''name''')


0019.00              QUAL       TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(50) MIN(1) +


0020.00                           PROMPT('''e-mail address''')


0021.00



When I run this command from a command entry line I am able to include a
number of recipients defined as *TO or *CC or *BCC, all in the single
command:



EMLSTMF     SUBJECT(BLAH)

FROMNAME(MIKE)

FROMADDR(MPANTZOPOULOS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
TO(MPANTZOPOULOS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/MIKE/*TO
AROSS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ANDREW/*CC)

STMF('/i90/anvdev/emailbody/ed972ok.txt')





Notice how the TO parameter has constructed the two qualified values.



I now want to run this same sort of thing in a CL and populate the TO
parameter with 1 or more recipients in a dynamic manner based on other
reference data. For example, a particular report may need to go to two
different team leaders, but may also need to be copied to senior
manager. Who the recipients are will be based on a reference table
accessed by report id.



I tried creating a character variable to look like the above TO
parameter but it ended up being used as the first qualifier above (the
email address). The slashes between the individual qualifiers seem to be
markers required by the qualified parameter, but are ignored when I
include them in a string substitution value. In other words a single
substitution value consisting of a character variable will not work.



The fundamental question is:



How do I construct the qualified parameters dynamically so that I can
have 1 - 50 sets of recipients?



I have a feeling it's a problem with apostrophes but I can't seem to
quite 'get it'.



TIA



Mike Pantzopoulos






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