Re: Is there an alternative to FNDSTRPDM?

Hi Glenn,

What I would prefer to do is to use my library list instead of
*ALLUSR but I only want the user libraries in my library list. Is
there an API to determine if the library is a user or system library
or do I have to hard-code the list of libraries found in the "Object
(OBJ) - Help"?

QUSLOBJ can accept *USRLIBL for this reason... though I don't know exactly what release that first appeared in, or if it's always been there?

There's also QUSRJOBI with format JOBI0700. It'll give you a list of libraries for each part of the library list (once you figure out how to use the API, of course... it requires some pointer math.)

2. I'm not sure what to do for *FILEs. I'm using QUSLOBJ to list
*ALL in <lib-parm> of type *FILE. Is there an alternative to
FNDSTRPDM?

I'd be tempted to write my own, which would be pretty easy to do. In RPG it'd pretty much just be reading the flat record (without splitting it into fields) and running %scan() over it. And do that in a loop. Pretty easy.

The Ropen(), Rreadn() and RClose() APIs would make it relatively easy to read the file without using F/I specs if that's part of your goal.

You could also use the grep tool that's in QShell.