Re: QP2SHELL error

On 2010-10-15 09:27:00 -0600, "Parrish, Vilena R." <VParrish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

CALL PGM(QP2SHELL) PARM('/QOpenSys/usr/bin/-sh' '-c' &CMD)

I would not recommend using QP2SHELL2 to run a shell script as you are doing here. When you use QP2SHELL2, the /QOpenSys/usr/bin/sh shell will run within the same job/process as your CL program and therefore the shell inherits the same stdin, stdout, stderr file descriptors from your CL program. These descriptors are not "genuine" stream file descriptors and are not designed to be further propagated to the child processes that the shell will create to run the command(s) in your &CMD command. Usage Note 2 from the QP2SHELL2 documentation also attempts to describe this situation:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v7r1m0/topic/apis/qp2shell.htm

Instead, I would do something like this:
QSH CMD(&CMD)
Qshell will spawn a new job/process to run your &CMD and that new process will have "true" stream file stdin/stdout/stderr that a shell processor needs. But note you'll likely need to adjust the value of &CMD to prepend the shell processor as you have /QOpenSys/usr/bin/sh -c (And also note I don't believe Qshell will recognize the login shell indicator "-" in you're currently using in "/QOpenSys/usr/bin/-sh", but perhaps you don't really need or want to do login shell processing here?