Re: Missing OS/400 command processing feature

[Buck Calabro/commsoft<mcalabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greg van Paasen wrote:
>I was not aware that if you specified SBMDBJOB 
>with a source member name on a user-defined PDM 
>option, PDM would perform variable substitution 
>(&n,&l, etc) on the commands in the source member. 
>Can you confirm this for me (and the others on this list)?

Greg,
  You're right; you can't use PDM to substitute parameters within your 
source member.  What I use SBMDBJOB for is as a pseudo "make" function.  I 
have a separate srcpf called MAKESRC.  When I have a program that needs 
special overrides, or uses files in QTEMP (like DSPOBJD might create) then 
I create a source member that has the same name as the program I'm working 
on.  Here's an example:

File BUCK/MAKESRC mbr LTSDMSR, type CL:

// BCHJOB BUCKCRTPGM 
OVRDBF MMACREP BUCK/MMACREP 
CHGJOB OUTQ(BUCK) 
CRTBNDRPG  PGM(BUCK/LTSDMSR) SRCFILE(BUCK/QRPGLENPT) DFTACTGRP(*NO) +
             DBGVIEW(*SOURCE) 
// ENDBCHJOB 

When I need to compile LTSDMSR, I go into QRPGLESRC, make my changes and 
then fire up PDM option MP:

SBMDBJOB FILE(&L/MAKESRC) MBR(&N) JOBQ(COMPILES)

This will submit the database job that has the same name as the source 
member I'm working on.
I use the PDM substitution options to work with the SBMDBJOB command, not 
the source member.

I should add that this has become less useful to me since I started using a 
utility written by Henrik Krebs that allows me to embed these commands into 
my RPG/CL/DDS source...

Buck Calabro
CommSoft, Albany, NY
mailto:mcalabro@commsoft.net


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