Re: compiling options on a display File

Check with your department to see if they have a 'Change Management' tool.
These handle this.

Rob Berendt

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                    Mike.Collins@syan
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on a display File


                    11/09/2001 06:12
                    AM
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If you mean you ALWAYS want to compile with RSTDSP(*YES) then you can
change the default on the CRTDSPF command accordingly via CHGCMDDFT. I
would not recommend changing the IBM version, but creating your own if
possible, in a QSYS override library.

If you mean you want to compile varying display files with different
attributes stored in the source somehow, then you need to use a
precompiler. There are probably commercial tools available, we use the old
Synon/1 tool which does this for us. Not sure if that is still available
though. Precompilers work by the use of routing data on subsystems. The
default is to use the IBM QCMD program to process any command issued, but
you can write your own program that traps the command, reads the source and
picks up any lines of source with your parameter overrides, such as RSTDSP
(*YES) DFRWRT(*NO) etc, and then re-routes the command back to the IBM QCMD
program with the added parameters. There is a section on the concept of
rerouting in the Work Management guide I believe.

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