Re: Expanded Command Line

["Mark S. Waterbury" <mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxx>]

Hi, Doug:

But, I am not running in the S/36 Environment (never have, never will...) ?

I never worked on a "real" System/36 either. I came over from IBM 
mainframes (MVS, VSE, VM) directly to OS/400 circa 1989.

Mark

> Douglas Handy wrote:
> Mark,
>
> You can type "//" at the beginning of pretty much any OS/400 command,
>   
> > for example, type:
> >
> >    // DSPJOB
> >
> > on any command line and then press Enter.
> >
> > It just ignores the "//" in this case.
> >     
>
>
> What it actually does is try to parse it as an OCL statement (which on the
> S/36, begins with //) and when the next word is not a valid OCL command,
> will look for a command by the same name.  This is because the S36EE lets
> you embed native commands in OCL procedures.
>
> You'd have  a problem if your command name happened to match a valid OCL
> statement because then it would be parsed as if OCL instead of a command.
>