Re: Can a Command Validity Check program be an RPG ILE program

Yes, you can use any language for validity-checking programs - C/C++, COBOL, CL, RPG - whatever. There can be limitations of CL that make RPG the thing to use for this - as well as the command-processing program. The main one is the limit of 9999 characters in a *CHAR variable - these days it's easy to need the longer capabilities of RPG. There are ways to sneak around it - CL parameters are just pointers, after all.

We tend to use a CL as the VCP, then call anything else we need. The main reason is perhaps historical - we have a security-checker that has been done in CL forever. And there are other environmental things, like library lists, that are more-easily done in CL.

I don't know if you can have a VCP in REXX - you certainly can use REXX as the CPP, and in some ways it is an absolute dream! Parsing mixed lists - well, it couldn't be simpler.

HTH (other than that last paragraph!!!)
Vern

On 2/9/2012 9:55 AM, Mark Walter wrote:

Use the QMHSNDPM API.

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Can a Command Validity Check program be an RPG ILE program



If yes, how is the SNDPGMMSG supposed to be handled in the RPG?



In my test I use QCMDEXEC to execute a SNDPGMMSG *ESCAPE parms and it runs
right through and continues on processing the command



I am just now trying to learn this process so bear with me if this is a
stupid question J.





Thanks



John