Re: Command Defaults... Are they stored anywhere?

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I believe I've seen a way to get the original defaults, but it's not a 
lot of fun - look at the help for the command. Seems I've seen it 
present the defaults as originally specified, because CHGCMDDFT does 
nothing for related help, especially UIM-defined help.

Isn't there another API for retrieving UIM help code? And one for 
command information? Not sure it's exactly useful in this context, however.

Cheers
Vern

On 6/22/2022 11:05 PM, x y wrote:
> Aren't they part of the command object?  CHGCMDDFT changes the defaults for
> everybody, not just the current user.  CHGCMDDFT changes the object's
> change/time; that suggests the (changed) defaults are buried in the object.
>
> There's code (RTVCMDDFN?) floating around that does a semi-good version of
> extracting the command source from a command object; QCDRCMDD is the API.
> But I can't think of a way of getting the original defaults--other than
> looking at the source code, of course.
>
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 2:36 PM Brad Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Something I've been wondering for a long time.. are command defaults stored
> > anywhere in a table... or are they actually part of the command itself?
> >
> > Even if it's just if a user uses CHGCMDDFT to change it and it's only
> > stored then, that may be useful.
> >
> > If they are stored in the command object.. I suppose there's no way to get
> > the defaults without processing the command with a CL... maybe dumping the
> > object?  Man, I haven't done that forever.  :)
> >
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