Re: Command Defaults... Are they stored anywhere?

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yep - RTVCMDSRC uses the QCDRCMDI API - just downloaded it, to see 
what's there - and that API does present only current values. But there 
are ways to get original values, as I and others have offered here.

RTVCMDSRC does look interesting in other ways - something about 
retrieving values based on MSGDs, I think. So more to study!

Cheers
Vern

On 6/27/2022 6:20 AM, Rob Berendt wrote:
> I think RTVCMDSRC would show the new defaults.  Not the shipped defaults.
>
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> safe. The original defaults can be found in the command source.. which 
> isn't always available. The new defaults.. well, it would be nice if 
> they were just stored in a table... library/command/paramter --> 
> original default, current default, maybe even available options? It's 
> just one of those things that my customers have to remember to do when 
> they update their software is to check that they also reset the 
> defaults to what they had before. That's the main reason behind my 
> asking. On Sun, Jun 26, 2022 at 5:17 PM Vern Hamberg via MIDRANGE-L < 
> midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Javier
> >
> > The interesting part of Brad's question, for me, is, what are the
> > original defaults? The original defaults are not stored in the command
> > object. If the help text comes from a UIM panel group, you can get that,
> > unless the person who created the command, such as you or I might do,
> > unless that person also changes the help text. IBM does not change help
> > text when you change a default.
> >
> > I'm interested in what the original defaults are, in order to know what
> > it used to be - for the commands from IBM that have been changed where I
> > work.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Vern