[WDSCI-L] Re: User options question

["Dizzy Verde" <dizzyverde@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

<Hi, all

I was just thinking of how user options work in PDM. One of the things you 
can do is add parameters on the command line that are applied to each use of 
the option - multiple selections. I.e., a single entry of additional 
parameters to be applied to multiple evocations of a command. This is also 
one of the things in many green screens that is very useful - OUTQ(name) 
when entering '2' on multiple spooled files in WRKSPLF is a classic example.

Is this now or going to be available in RSE? That's one of the things that 
is a tremendous timesaver in PDM.

TIA

Vern>

You can achieve this effect in WDSc, but (as far as I know) not without 
doing some of the work yourself.

When defining a user action, check both "Prompt first" and "Invoke once".  
If you check "Invoke once", WDSc will create a temporary source file member 
that has a record for each selected resource.  You can use the &MF, &ML and 
&MM variables in your command to indentify the file, library and member that 
is created when your action is run.

For example, YOURCMD FILE(&ML/&MF) MBR(&MM)

Your command processing program then is responsible for retrieving the 
actual selections from the source member, which you would have to experiment 
with.  For example, if your action is a member action, the selections will 
be in the form srclib/srcfile(srcmbr).

Since you checked "Prompt first" you will be prompted (once) and have the 
opportunity to specify any additional parameters for your command (as if you 
were entering them on a PDM command line), and your processing program can 
then use these parameters to execute whatever command needs to be executed 
against each selection.

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