On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 4:46 PM, Greg Wilburn
<gwilburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks once again for this. I spent the afternoon change about 160 CL programs... I had to run through this process below 3 times to change 3 different things on a command that changed (v7r3 upgrade).
Hm. Well, this certainly *feels* like something that RDi could do, or
could help significantly with, at least with a plugin.
But regardless of that, what you are describing definitely sounds like
it's getting into "write a script" territory. I mean, I know that
doesn't help you *now* but maybe in the future. The script could live
in PASE or on your local machine (and you could do what you need to do
using ODBC or Ublu). Maybe best of all would be Rexx (in QSYS.LIB),
but there seem to be very few on these lists with proficiency in Rexx
to help you with that.
If you don't know any scripting languages (by that I mean
Unix/Linux/PASE shell scripting, or Perl, Python, Ruby, JavaScript,
etc.), then I heartily recommend that you carve out some time to learn
one. Besides being useful, they are just fun. And they can be
mind-expanding. And you'll want to already have some familiarity with
one before the next scriptable problem comes your way, because if you
have to learn from scratch while you're writing the script, then yeah,
it could take more than an afternoon. (But even then, it still might
be worth it because the script is potentially reusable. Manual labor
generally isn't.)
John Y.
midrange.com
