Re: Dumb Question O-Day

["Rory Hewitt" <roryhewitt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Steven,

I worte an article for Scott's Programming Tips newsletter in November 2006
about this sort of thing - it includes code for a utility procedure called
parse() which helps you to combine strings - see
http://www.systeminetwork.com/artarchive/newsletter/w/1001/a/53509/index.html

You would use the parse() utility as follows:

/free
  Base = 'SBMJOB CMD(CALL PGM(HPMODS/R0774B) PARM(''&1'' ''&2''))
USER(IXAADMIN)';
  SubmitJob = parse( Base : %trim( path ) : %trim( printer ) );
  SystemCmd( SubmitJob : %len( SubmitJob ) );
/end-free

You could also hold Base as a constant string, or in a database file (as I
do) or supply it as a parameter. This is very similar to Jonathan's method
of holding the data as a message, but in some ways it's more flexible (and
in some ways, less).

Rory

On 6/21/07, sjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <sjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> That is what I am struggling with,  getting the cmdstring (submitjob)
> formated correctly.  I forgot to post the callp which is:
>
> Callp     SystemCmd(SubmitJob : %Len(SubmitJob))