RE: PDM Default Options, F18. Where are they stored, how to retrieve them in an RPG program.

Thanks for the help Dan, and all.

As far what use is retrieving the pdm default options -

We currently have compile strings (in a file) we use to create objects
at check-in time.  It is tied in with our in-house Change Management.

We want to allow programmers to use those same strings while working
 on the programs, not just at check-in time.

We going to save and re-use our compile strings w/o having to rekey
 them all the time (we don't want them in H-specs).

By introducing an intermediate 'compile' screen via a pdm user defined
 option (and with the help of QCAPCMD and a service pgm or two) we can
 retrieve our strings, prompt on those strings, and, if something was
 changed, save the changed strings back to the file.

We'd like use the programmers current pdm default settings to keep this
 all running smooth.  Instead of having a second place to have those
 options setup (redundant - duplication).

Again, thanks for they help.

John B.


ps. If I have to explain the benefits of all this, you haven't been
    on the AS/400 (iSeries) long enough to ask. <g>