Re: CMD difficulty - V5R2

[Rich Duzenbury <rduz-midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 20:04 +0000, Martin Rowe wrote:
> On 17/02/06, Rich Duzenbury <rduz-midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I need to write a command that can prompt for one or more command
> > strings, which I thought would be easily possible.
> >
> > I first tried
> >
> > parm kwd(commands) type(*cmd) max(10)
> > Error CPD6229, if type *CMD specified, MAX(1) required.
> >
> > Ummm, ok.
> >
> > How about elem?
> >
> > ELEM type(*cmd)
> > Error CPD0133, *CMD not allowed for type.
> >
> > This seems like an odd restriction.  Surely there is some way to allow
> > the user to prompt for a list of commands.  Could someone enlighten me,
> > please?
> 
> Hi Rich
> 
> >From my recollection, not only can you only have a single *CMD field,
> rather than a list, but you can only have one *CMD type parm in a
> command definition. At least that appears to be the case at V5R2.
> Possibly you could do something with a long *CHAR field with an
> associated CHOICEPGM parm, to get your string prompted via QCMDCHK or
> QCAPCMD.
> 
That's the sort of workaround I was hoping someone might suggest.  I
haven't done any CHOICEPGM's.  I guess I'll do some googling...

Thanks.