Re: CMD does not like parameter with dash - in it

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Most likely it is seeing the dash as a minus sign which hints to me that 
quite possibly the apostrophes are not lining up the way you think they are?


On 4/17/2012 4:17 PM, dale janus wrote:
> I have somewhat convoluted series of programs that is used to email
> shipping documents and invoices to customers. Our billing process runs a
> CL program that (naturally) calls RPG.  In the RPG program I use QCMDEXE
> to put together  a long string of 7 parameters to call another CL program
> which uses software called BLUESERIES to actually do the emailing (and
> occasional fax).
>
>
> As I struggled to put this together, I had trouble getting RPG to string
> the commands together with quotes and parentheses, etc. I don't remember
> all the methods I tried.
>
>    I created a command to call the last CL program. RPG calls the CMD with
> parameters, which runs the CL program and the documents get emailed.
> Customers are happy, billing dept is happy, life is good.
>
> Then one of our customers has an email address with a hyphen in it.  The
> CMD blows up.
>
> "Message . . . . :   Expression operator not allowed for parameter EMAIL.
> Cause . . . . . :   An expression operator was found immediately before or
>     after a character string with no intervening blanks on a parameter
> that does
>     not support expressions. Character string expressions are only allowed in
>     CHGVAR commands, IF commands, or a parameter defined with EXPR(*YES).
>     Arithmetic, relational, and logical expressions are only allowed on the
>     CHGVAR and IF commands. Recovery  . . . :   Remove the expression
> operator
>     or insert a blank between the operator and the character string. More
>     information on expression operators can be found in the CL Reference
> manual."
>
>
> Is there an easy way to edit the CMD parameters as part of the CMD?   Or
> if I edit in RPG and find a hyphen, what can I do to pass it correctly?
>
> This whole thing took me a while to get working and for some reason, I
> could not set up the QCMDEXE call correctly with the 7 parameters if I
> had to "CALL MYCLPGM (parm1 parm2 parm etc). But I could with the CMD.
>
>
> So to recap in reverse, the final step is a CL program that receives
> parameter of email address, customer name, type of document to send.  It
> creates a path statement and runs BLUESERIES to send/fax the documents.
>
> A CMD is used to fire off the CL program. If the email address has a
> hyphen in it, the CMD bombs.
>
> An RPG program calls the CMD
>
> Thanks
> ---Dale