Re: [IBMiOSS] QIBM_QSH_CMD_ESCAPE_MSG

[Jack Woehr <jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stack your commands

dothis && dothat && doanother

&& means "proceed If the previous code was 0" in Unix


On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 11:21 AM Craig Richards <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> In order to trap QSH errors, I've been setting QIBM_QSH_CMD_ESCAPE_MSG to Y
> as a Job level Environmental Variable and it works swimmingly when I call
> QSH with a single command.
>
> But my testing seems to indicate that if I pass several semicolon separated
> commands to QSH (directly in the CMD parameter),  the Escape Message is
> based on whether the LAST command had exit status 0 or not.
>
> So my simple cunning plan, that at the first sign of trouble, QSH would
> stop executing commands and send me a nice Escape Message I could monitor
> for has fallen at the first hurdle.
>
> I can see the errors in STDOUT which I've overridden.
>
> I'm guessing that to get the behaviour I want (stop executing commands and
> notify the caller via an escape message at the first error), I'll need to
> use a script instead?
>
> Thanks kindly,
> Craig
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