Re: Where is CHGCMDDFT data stored?

I was thinking maybe the original and changed default were present in the *CMD object, and thus why I thought maybe that information could appear as some detail in the XML output; not as a history though. I figure that the current parameter default would be extracted and be included as detail in the XML output, so if the original parameter default is also available [and different than the current], then why not include that detail in the XML output so as to document that original parameter default? I would think a better approach than parsing each MI *CMD space object [internals] might be to ask in a DCR, that IBM make an enhancement to include the original parameter default information [if since-changed to have a new parameter default] in the XML output.?

Regards, Chuck

On 2/11/11 3:28 PM, Vern Hamberg wrote:

That API does not present any history - it shows only the current
defaults, if present. I seem to recall that a DMPOBJ might have the
value - yes, just ran a test.

If you DMPOBJ on a command, the default values are presented together
at an offset I didn't take time to work out. Then I ran CHGCMDDFT -
the original defaults are all in the same place, with a 2-byte length
before each value - the change is at another location.

I assume there's a template somewhere for this - could it be made
public? The MI list members may know.

On 2/11/2011 3:32 PM, CRPence wrote:

On 2/11/11 9:41 AM, Mike Wills wrote:

Like an idiot, I forgot to keep track of some key CHGCMDDFT
commands when I created them. How do I go back and look those up
so we can make sure they are there after we upgrade the system? I
know I have seen how to do this in the past. Google didn't turn
anything up for me. I'll add this to the Wiki when I get the
answer.

I've not used the feature to extract a command definition as XML,
but that may provide information describing what specific
default(s) were changed; i.e. beyond knowing only that at least one
command parameter default was changed on the command according to
the 'CHGDFT' value in the ODAPAR field of the DSPOBJD output file
for that command object.?