Re: List of object types

[Phil Hall <hallp@xxxxxxxx>]

John Earl wrote:
> 
> More than once I've come across the need to list all object types that are
> possible on a given release, but I've never found a place on the /400 that I
> could just look it up.
> An example would be where you you want to build a command that allows users
> to do something with objects, and you want to be able to validate the
> 'object type' field that they type in.  Where do you look to determine that
> the 'object type' is a valid object type?  Is there a table or a list of
> these somewhere?  I'd think that there would have to be.  How else would the
> WRKOBJ command get it.

Bad news. I dumped some of the AS/400 CMDs that have the OBJTYPE keyword (like
SAVOBJ, WRKOBJ, etc) and they all specify the object types as special values in
the cmd definition, so it looks like they're hard coded - sorry !!

--phil

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