Re: Create product (solved) -- RPG400-L


On 30/11/2006, at 12:12 PM, Scott Klement wrote:

I don't know how much help this is.  I spent a little while (maybe 1/2
hour) earlier trying to figure out the documentation for the API, butranout of time that I could spend on it. The documentation is terrible.The
error message isn't very enlightening.  I suppose that it's easy enough
for someone who is familiar with the way that software products arebuilt,
but it's all new to me, and I'm a bit lost.

The information in the discussion on the iSeries forum provided the twothings missing from the original append in this list:

        1) The message ID
        2) The command parameters used to invoke the code

The documentation is fine--especially on current releases. You justhave to be particular when processing it. I've built a complete set ofcode around these APIs to replace the IBM SMU LPP. It packages productsand options and handles the PTF process too. The only problem I everhad with these APIs was adding directory support to QPZCRTFX at VRM420where they were supported but not documented until 510 and thestructures at 420 were different from the documented structures at 510.Bruce Vining very kindly helped me make sense of this.

In this particular case the cause of the "Object name *N not valid" isbecause the LibInfoDS is not being populated correctly. In your examplecommand both the "Primary library" and the "Post-operation exitprogram" fields are blank. In the original example the "Post-operationexit program" field is blank.

Blanks are not acceptable values for these fields. They must contain aname or one of the allowable special values. Sensible default valuescan be provided on the command definition by specifying the allowablespecial values for the default parameter values.

Specifying correct values for these two fields allows the example codeto run. The code still has the errors I mentioned in my previous appendbut they'll cause different errors that will manifest after theLibInfoDS structure is fixed.



Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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