Re: Prompting CL command RSTOBJ in RDi 9.x

On 10/17/13 1:47 PM, Jim Essinger wrote:

Wondering if anyone else sees this or is it unique to my install.
Editing a CLP source member that has the following command:

RSTOBJ OBJ(*ALL) SAVLIB(R37Files) DEV(TC)

When I prompt for more values to specify, like ENDOPT I get the
following message at the bottom of the prompt popup:

"Starting position requires a sequence number."

No matter what I change I can't seem to get the prompter to take the
command.

The starting position parm shows *FIRST, which is what I think it is
hollering about.

Ideas?

Probably a problem with the way a DEP statement is being processed for the data TYPE(*HEX). Whatever data is supposed to be passed to the CPP for the special value *FIRST for the "Starting position in file (POSITION)" parameter, is apparently being detected as something other than *FIRST; i.e. the evaluation of the dependency-rule infers that something other than *FIRST was specified on the POSITION parameter, and thus diagnoses the noted error. Presumably the server-based prompter [i.e. the same request via 5250 CL command-line] does not exhibit the same issue.?

Probably best to report the issue as an apparent defect.

FWiW: The data definitions [e.g. special values and resulting value] and validation rules should be made visible with the output of the "Retrieve Command Definition (QCDRCMDD) API" performed against the RSTOBJ command. That information may reveal a defect in how the XML describes the data and parameter dependencies, or may imply a defect in how that information is being interpreted by the client-based prompter.