RE: Calling QSH with variables from CL

I had an issue with that once with several parms that was a bear to get right. The CL was not something I would want to troubleshoot.

I ended up exporting the parms to the environment (QSHPARM01, QSHPARM02....) and referenced them in the script $QSHPARM01.......

The complexity of the call, as well as my stress level, went down exponentially.

Just another viewpoint.

Roger Harman
COMMON Certified Application Developer – ILE RPG on IBM i on Power





-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Patrik Schindler
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2020 6:07 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Calling QSH with variables from CL

Hello Peter,

Am 19.08.2020 um 02:35 schrieb Peter Dow <petercdow@xxxxxxxxx>:

Try

CHGVAR VAR(&QSHDOIT) VALUE('echo' *BCAT &MYSTR *CAT '; echo $?')

Thanks a lot! That's what happens when you use SEU and F4 Prompting: Automatic insert of Quotes all around the complete VALUE(). :-D Sometimes I feel blind…

:wq! PoC

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