Re: Building SAVLIB lib parm

[Evan Harris <spanner@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi David

When faced with a similar problem my solution was to build the whole 
command string and execute it using QCMDEXEC.

Regards
Evan Harris

> Okay, it's after 5 on a Friday afternoon.  That's my excuse and I'm
> sticking to it.
>
> I've gotten a brain cramp, forgetting how to format a parm for the SAVLIB
> command.  I'm prompting the user for their choices, concatenating library
> groups into a 512-byte char field, then using that as the LIB parm in
> SAVLIB (as shown below)
>
>    SAVLIB    LIB(&LibList)
>
> But it's not working.  As you all probably know.  I'm pretty sure this parm
> has to have the 1st two bytes as a binary value?  Then length of the parm?
> or number of library entries?  Something like that?
>
> And do I have to space each lib to pad for shorter library names?  In other
> words, can &LibList be
>   "QS36F  LIBRARY1  LIB2"  or does it have to be
>   "QS36F     LIBRARY1  LIB2      " ?