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On 08-Jan-2016 10:06 -0700, broehmer wrote:
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The use of STRPDM instead of WRKMBRPDM for me is if I'm moving around
different libraries and/or different members for a quick view.

FWiW: Not meant to suggest the noted workflow is flawed, merely to explain why I find the rationale potentially flawed, at least from another perspective.

WRKMBRPDM enter gets one into the last library/file used with listed
members and STRPDM gives one the option to switch libraries.

WRKMBRPDM->Enter gives /default/ behaviour of WRKMBRPDM FILE(*PRV). The default for WRKMBRPDM can be modified easily enough however. And IMO, much easier accomplished, than when navigating via STRPDM. And if not arguably easier, then at least surely with fewer /panel/ interactions; panel presentations, which I find to be mostly a nuisance. The prompted ?WRKMBRPDM is nearly identical to the "Specify Members to Work With" panel of the STRPDM; if one were inclined to step from panel-to-panel, consider that the navigation of STRPDM->3->Enter is little different than the ?WRKMBRPDM->Enter navigation.

WRKLIBPDM is similar but WRKLIBPDM enter just shows the last library
with no list of libraries.

If the previous invocation was a list, so too would be the effect of the *PRV defaulted Library (LIB) specification; e.g. WRKLIBPDM *LIBL or WRKLIBPDM Q* preceding a WRKLIBPDM *PRV will have the later request presenting the same list of libraries shown /previously/.

WRKLIBPDM without prompt is kind of useless for me.

Prompting is mostly useless for me. If I will know what library\libraries I want to present after having navigated STRPDM->1->Enter, then whatever I will eventually specify on the Library prompt is no different than what I would have specified as the first argument of the WRKLIBPDM from the command-line; e.g. if I want a list of all libraries with name prefix of QSYS, I just type WRKLIBPDM QSYS* and press Enter for which I am taken directly to the list of libraries from the command-line without having visited any prompts.

WRKMBRPDM is by far the most productive, in my opinion, if I'm on
but difficult for a customer to key versus STRPDM option 1, option
12.

I would rather direct a customer to type just a single string of characters and to then press Enter, than to ask them to navigate through multiple screens; saves me great amount of hassle:

• WRKMBRPDM QUSRSYS/QATOCPPSCR
• Enter

vs

• STRPDM
• 3
• type QATOCPPSCR in the first entry field
• type QUSRSYS in the second entry field
• Enter

Anyone remember GO PROGRAM?

That is broken [empty] for me on my v7r1 system because I am a User Class (USRCLS) of *USER vs *PGMR; I would have expected a line showing something like (non-programmers are presented this empty list) to appear.? Nevertheless, [what would appear for a programmer-class user as] the option-1 "Programmer Menu" is still available via the Start Programmer Menu (STRPGMMNU) command or the CALL QPGMMENU command request; I suspect that _may be_ to what was alluded anyhow, vs the PROGRAM menu.?


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