Re: Size of command in menus

"MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 06/27/2018
02:08:01 PM:

It doesn't sound like you're talking about a command line at

all.

It sounds like you're talking about the STRSDA screen where you are
prompted for the command to go with the menu selection. This

information

gets stored in the QQ member (MNUCMD) associated with the menu and then
written as a msgid to a MSGF that is also associated with the menu.

I don't know about the screen that STRSDA gives you for entry
purposes, but I do know that the QQ member will support up to 159
characters for the command string. I know this because we don't use
STRSDA here. We use RDi, instead. So we have to use RSE to maintain

the

QQ member separately. Thus, I wrote my own REXX command to be able to
"compile" the QQ member into a MSGF object.

Now, once upon a time, the STRPCCMD was limited to a

123-character

PC command string. But I believe this restriction has been lifted. So,

at the very least you can get 159 characters for the full menu command
string into the QQ member and the MSGF associated with the menu. If

that

is not enough then you will have to make an RFE to IBM to get this
limitation increased. Before that, you can manually modify the MSGF

after

it is created to see if that gives you what you want.

Sorry, I misled you a bit. I went and tested STRSDA specifically
and found that the most it will support is a 115-character command string
in the QQ member. The following was generated by STRSDA as part of my
test. It is my REXX command that will support a a longer command string.
But the ADDMSGD command will only support a 132-character message text so
that is another limitation. It is unlikely that IBM will change this.


MXX00QQ,1
0001
|---+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7
0002+|---+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+
----8----+----9----+----A----+----B----|
0003
|---+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7


Sincerely,

Dave Clark