RE: Using QUSLOBJ API

You might not have been referring to one library, but the OP was; therefore
that is the main point of the thread.

"Your 'best way' sounds reasonable. But it's not necessarily everyone's
'best way'."

I wrote that it was "the best way IMO". Do you not know that IMO means "in
my opinion". If you do, then why did you feel the need to point out that
it's not everyone's best way? I didn't say or imply that it was. And then
you have the nerve to tell me to lighten up?

I understand that Vern's post was in jest and that yours was also somewhat
in jest. My first reply simply stated that the object limit for a library
wouldn't exceed the user space size limit and mentioned further that the
save limit is even more restrictive so that people reading this thread might
think a little more carefully about these restrictions. So you took it upon
yourself to go well beyond the scope of the thread (one library) to gasp
that someone might use *ALL for the library. Again, who needs to lighten
up?

The URL you list is one of the documents to which I referred regarding using
generic library names for that API. I also looked at the same document for
V6R1 and V5R4. As I said, there's nothing in that document (any version)
that mentions that a generic name is allowed for the library. The actual
first part of the discussion (which you seemed to miss) is:

<--Begin Document Snippet-->
The second 10 characters identify the name of the library or libraries to
search for the specified objects. The following special values are allowed:
<--End Document Snippet-->

It then lists what you did about the special values. Again, it does not
mention generic names for the library.



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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Dennis Lovelady
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 18:02
To: 'RPG programming on the IBM i / System i'
Subject: RE: Using QUSLOBJ API

While it's true that using a special value for the library, such as
*ALL, *ALLUSR, *LIBL, or *USRLIBL will most likely hit the size limit
of a user space, the OP was referring to one library, and it seems
that everyone else, including you, were as well. This is why my post
was

limited to that.

Bad assumption. I was not.

The best way IMO to handle using any of the special values for
processing multiple libraries is to use two user spaces. One to get a
list of

matching

libraries, and one to get a list of objects for each library, one
library

at

a time. ...

Your "best way" sounds reasonable. But it's not necessarily everyone's
"best way." The Open list of Objects may be considered by some to be a
better way.

By the way, IBM's documentation for QUSLOBJ does not indicate that
generic names are allowed for the library name. Because it does not
say that it is allowed, I've never tried to use generic names for the
library list with that API. The approach I mentioned above does allow
generic library names ...

Not sure which doc you are reading. Here is the first part of that
discussion from
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v7r1m0/index.jsp?topic=%2Fa
pis%2Fquslobj.htm

(I've been using *ALLUSR since the API was introduced (V2R3, I think).)

*ALL All libraries in the auxiliary storage pools defined by the
auxiliary storage pool (ASP) control parameter are searched.
*ALLUSR All user libraries in the auxiliary storage pools (ASPs)
defined by the auxiliary storage pool (ASP) control parameter are searched.
User libraries are all libraries with names that do not begin with the
letter Q. For information about the libraries included, see *ALLUSR in
Generic library names.

(et cetera. Other libraries mentioned are: *CURLIB, *LIBL, *USRLIBL)

Lighten up a little, Okay? Vern's comment was in jest (or I read it that
way) I responded to that in jest, and now it's gotten way out of hand. I
think the OP has what he needs, or will come back with additional questions.

Dennis Lovelady
http://www.linkedin.com/in/dennislovelady
--
"If we all said to each other's faces what we say behind each other's backs,
society would be impossible."
-- Honor de Balzac



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