RE: Default for command without default value? -- MIDRANGE-L


Caution,

RTVCMDSRC is a great utility, but it doesn't do a perfect job.  New command
parameter types are added in each release (yes - still!!!), and RTVCMDSRC
doesn't always get the updates.  For example, the CRTRPGPGM command that I
posted yesterday had to be fixed by hand.  (V5R1)

Al



Al Barsa, Jr.
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Well, if you searched on RTVCMDSRC, you should have found it by now.  If
not, try:
http://www.news400.com/sharewarefiles/rtvcmd.zip
RTVCMDSRC retrieves source from AS/400 commands, both IBM and user-defined.
Works on V2R3 and up (including RISC). Source code included. Author: Dave
McKenzie.
Submitted: 30 Oct 1996
Cels Enterprises?  Lemme guess...  Movie cels?


Dan Bale
IT - AS/400
Handleman Company
248-362-4400  Ext. 4952
D.Bale@Handleman.com
  Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur.
  (Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)


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     -----Original Message-----
     From:   JIM LANGSTON [SMTP:JLANGSTON@CELSINC.COM]
     Sent:   Monday, July 30, 2001 4:44 PM
     To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
     Subject:        RE: Default for command without default value?


     Ahh, that sounds like a plan.  If I could retrieve the CMD source for
     the
     CRTRPGPGM it would be a simple matter for me to edit it and add a
     default
     for OPTION.  Any clue as to what this home grown command might be
     called?
     I'll search for RTVCMDSRC and see if anything pops up.


     (Aye, found a new job here at Cels Enterprises, Inc.  So far I like
     it).


     Regards,


     Jim Langston
     Programmer/Analyst
     Cels Enterprises, Inc.





     -----Original Message-----
     From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com [
     mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On
     Behalf Of Bale, Dan
     Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 9:44 AM
     To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
     Subject: RE: Default for command without default value?





     Jim, (new email address?  Guess you found that new job, eh?)
     I b*tched and moaned about CRTRPGPGM OPTION parameter before as well.
     To answer your question directly, there is a freeware app out there
     somewhere (News400?) that allows you to retrieve the source from a
     command
     object.  Then you could modify it as you wished.
     Dan Bale
     IT - AS/400
     Handleman Company
     248-362-4400  Ext. 4952
     D.Bale@Handleman.com
       Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur.
       (Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)
     -------------------------- Original Message --------------------------

     -----Original Message-----
     From:   JIM LANGSTON [SMTP:JLANGSTON@CELSINC.COM]
     Sent:   Monday, July 30, 2001 12:25 PM
     To:     MIDRANGE-L
     Subject:        Default for command without default value?
     Hi,
     I tried to add a default value to the CRTRPGPGM command for the OPTION
     parameter for *SRCDBG to always compile with debug information.  Error
     came
     back that OPTION didn't have a default parameter, so I could't change
     it.
     Makes sense, but begs the question, how do I add a default value to a
     command parameter without a current default parameter?
     I would guess I would have to recompile the command, which I can't
     find for
     the system commands, so would have have to create my own command and
     set all
     the defaults I wanted and stick it higher in my library list not to
     mess
     with the system command.  Seems like a bit of a headache getting all
     the
     parameters right though.
     Is there an easier way?  If not, I will probably create a CL interface
     that
     calls CRTRPGPGM with the default values I want and create a CRTRPGPGM
     pointing to my CL, which I know the subset parameters of.
     Regards,
     Jim Langston
     Programmer/Analyst
     Cels Enterprises, Inc.



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