RE: cl question

[Bob Crothers <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mohammad,

This CL pgm does not interact with display files, rpg pgms, etc.

It simply accepts 3 parms: Object Name, Object Library and a 
completion flag.

It then checks for the presence of the object and sets the completion 
flag to Y or N.

One problem is that you specify the object type in your CHKOBJ as 
&type, but you never set that to be a value.  Normaly it would be 
*FILE, *PGM, *DTAARA, or something like that.

I highly recommend that you find yourself a good "AS/400 Concepts" 
book or online training course and get thru it as fast as you can. 
 Your employer has obviously done a poor job of preparing you for the 
AS/400, and without the some basic background information, this will 
get very frustrating for you....no mater how good of a programmer you 
are.

I have found the ATS courses to be quite good.  You can find 
information at: http://www.ibmuser.com/

You might also try http://www.400school.com/

It goes back to the saying about "you can give a man a loaf of bread 
and he will be feed for a day.  Or you can teach him to farm and he 
will be feed for the rest of his life".

Right now, you are getting bread.

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From:   mohammad khan [SMTP:mohammadakhan@yahoo.com]
Sent:   Wednesday, October 07, 1998 7:29 PM
To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com; RPG400-L@midrange.com
Subject:        cl question

i was working on the cl part of my job and came up with a few
questions. this is my cl pgm so far based on a layout i have, a few
changes ought to be necessary i think.

PGM PARM(&OBJ &LIB &OK)
DCL &OBJ *CHAR 10
DCL &LIB *CHAR 10
DCL &TYPE *CHAR 6
DCL &OK *CHAR 1 'Y'
CHKOBJ &LIB/&OBJ &TYPE
MONMSG CPF0000 EXEC(CHGVAR &OK 'N')
ENDPGM

anyway, my question is how, how does this cl pgm know
what &OBJ &LIB &TYPE &OK refer to when this cl pgm has to interact
with display files and rpg pgms, etc...

sincerely

Mohammad
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