Re: [Bulk] Re: API to create PCML from info embedded in object?

Hi, David:

Also, did you realize that in addition to storing the generated PCML inside the *MODULE, you can also have the compiler write it to the IFS, at the same time? (as part of the same compilation)? :-) e.g., specify:

CRTBNDRPG PGM(QGPL/DSPPCMLR) SRCFILE(QGPL/QRPGLESRC) SRCMBR(DSPPCMLR) REPLACE(*YES) +
PGMINFO(*PCML *ALL) INFOSTMF('/home/PCML/dsppcmlr.pcml')

The secret is to specify *ALL for the PGMINFO parameter, along with *PCML. ;-)

So, you can update your "compile" specifications in your change management tools so this happens automatically, right? ;-)

(Of course, it would not hurt to also have that version of DSPPCML that can write the results to the IFS. Please share those modifications, e.g. via code.midrange.com, thanks.)

Hope that helps,

Mark S. Waterbury

> On 5/24/2016 9:48 AM, David Gibbs wrote:

On 5/23/2016 6:18 PM, Mark S Waterbury wrote:

So, what exactly do you mean by "... generate PCML directly ..."?

On occasion I've updated a program object (*PGM or *SRVPGM), that gets invoked via PCML, and forgot to update the PCML.

I'd like to find (or create) an API that I could call with very simple parameters that will generate them PCML in the IFS that I can transfer to the local environment and load.

That way I can change the procedure prototypes without having to worry that I accounted for the change in the PCML.

Barbara Morris published a nice little sample program here:

I found that late yesterday ... it does a lot of what I want to do. All I really need is to adapt it to write to the IFS instead of displaying the PCML.

david