RE: Would anybody know of a way, from a CL program, . . .

[qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Tom Liotta)]

midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   7. Would anybody know of a way, from a CL program, . . .
>      (James H H Lampert)
>
>. . . to display a simple list on the screen, given that the program's one
>DCLF is already occupied by an "outfile" from a command used to generate
>that list?
>
>Could ILE CL be useful here? Could it perhaps do the equivalent of a C
>"printf"?

It's been ages since I wrote a DSPF for CL (or ILE CL). I long ago created 
command shells for the UIM APIs and then created UIM panel groups instead of 
DSPFs. Once you have a few sample source members for UIM, it's just about as 
easy to create new 'display files' w/UIM as with DDS and it doesn't require a 
DCLF. The same panel groups and commands can be used in REXX (or RPG or...).

Further, in a _real_ pinch, the QLGSORT/QLGSORTIO APIs can give both input and 
output capabilities for about as many files as any CL (or ILE CL) program could 
ever want, though it gets tricky with various numerics. Of course, QM queries 
are usually far nicer for update/insert/delete. (And spooled-file APIs plus 
user space APIs even allow fairly direct printing from CL.)

Who needs DCLF? When you can't afford compilers, you improvise.

Tom Liotta

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