RE: Standard menu command length

Another possibility is changing your command and changing the parameters you want 'locked' into "hidden" parameters-- the user never sees them, no matter how hard they prompt!

PARM KWD(SECRET) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(3) CONSTANT(YOURVALUE) MIN(1)

Constant value (CONSTANT) - Help

Specifies that a value is passed to the command processing program as a
constant when the command being defined is processed; the parameter does
not appear externally on the command.

Restrictions apply!

We do this to pass different options to one program, ie HLDJOBQ & RLSJOBQ kinds of things.

Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Jeff Crosby
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2019 11:07 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Standard menu command length

I ended up writing an encapsulating command/cl program combo that prompts
the user. The CL looks like this:

PGM

? BB15 +
??PROCS(*N) +
?-PRINT(*YES) +
?-RAWPKGLST(*SAME/PKGLBLAL) +
?-MBR(*CURRENT) +
?-SUBMIT(*YES) +
?-LBLGRP(*STD) +
?-PRTORD(*ASCEND) +
?-HLDLBLS(*NO)

MONMSG MSGID(CPF6801)

ENDPGM

This shows only the first parm and the others are blocked and unseen.

Thanks.


On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 10:40 AM <dlclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

David L Clark/it/crp/WinWholesale wrote on 01/31/2019 10:24:17 AM:

"MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 01/31/
2019 08:30:34 AM:

Is there a way to increase the command length on a standard SDA menu?

I'm

thinking not.

I have a command on a menu and I added a parm. Now it won't fit. Most

of

the parms are preceded by ?- because I don't want the user to be able

to

change them, the new parm included.

Is my only option to encapsulate it into another command?

I presume you are referring to the command length in the QQ member
for the commands behind the menu selections. Yes? If so then, no,
the longest command length in the QQ member is 115 characters as
entered from the STRSDA screens. However, after you've created the
members the first time, you *may* be able to edit the QQ member
directly and get up to 155 characters. This won't work if you still
use STRSDA to create your menu. I wrote my own REXX command to
create the message file from the QQ member and mine supports the 155
character length. I think I'll go post it on the midrange wiki as
sample code. give me half an hour and it will be there.

I misspoke. My command supports the full 132 characters that the
message file supports for the first-level message text.


Sincerely,

Dave Clark
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