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I go the route of storing my library lists in a physical file, and based on the application that gets ran I load the library list. Note that there are many modules underneath the main CGI program that get called, and I wouldn't want to have to code the below for each one of them when ever they needed to access a file. I let the library list dictate which file they are going to access (I guess this works good for me because I sometimes have the same file in multiple libraries but with different data). If you were looking for a reason there you go :-) -----Original Message----- From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of web400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 3:12 PM To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries Subject: RE: [WEB400] Library List question... Hi again, > It can be passed as a parm, gotten from a file, data area anything. > Does not have to be hard coded. Okay. You're suggesting doing the following, right? FCUSTMAS IF E K DISK USROPN D QCMDEXC PR ExtPgm('QCMDEXC') D command 32702A const options(*varsize) D length 15P 5 const D igc 3A const options(*nopass) D cmd s 30A varying c *Entry plist c parm Library 10 c eval cmd = 'ADDLIBLE ' + Library c callp QCMDEXC(cmd: %len(cmd)) c open CUSTMAS c eval cmd = 'RMVLIBLE ' + Library c callp QCMDEXC(cmd: %len(cmd)) My question is, why would you do that? The following code works just as well. It gives you all of the same advantages (and disadvantages) as your library list solution, but is simpler code, performs better, and doesn't need to muck with the library list at all? FCUSTMAS IF E K DISK USROPN F EXTFILE(FileName) D FileName s 21A c *Entry plist c parm Library 10 c eval FileName = %trimr(Library) + '/CUSTMAS' c open CUSTMAS I'm trying to understand what the advantage of using a library list is? If the program has to be aware of the library (regardless of whether it gets this info from a constant in the program or whether it reads it from a file, data area, parameter, etc) then why not just specify the libraries explictly when opening the file? What good is the library list? -- This is the Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries (WEB400) mailing list To post a message email: WEB400@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/web400 or email: WEB400-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/web400.
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