Re: Shelling out CRTLF via QCMDEXC -- question about success/failure

Thanks very much, Barbara. I hadn't thought about that and will go back to QCMDEXC.

On 06/12/2026 8:16 PM EDT Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


On 2026-06-09 10:57 a.m., Rob Berendt wrote:

I was a big fan of system(), until I was not. I forget why. Others have
alluded to the ease of getting the error with QCAPCMD instead.

I don't like system() because it removes the final escape message from
the joblog. If you get an unexpected exception, the only thing you can
get from _EXCP_MSGID is the message ID. Any substitution values are lost.

Also, system() doesn't remove any diagnostic messages that precede the
final escape message. That can make the joblog look very strange if
something bad happens.

For me, the extra coding for QCMDEXC or QCAPCMD is worth it to get a
good joblog if something unexpected happens.

--
Barbara

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