Comments on: F9=Retrieve…

By: sloopy

sloopy — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:12:51 +0000

It’s interesting that this question has been running nearly three and a half years now.

OK. I would write a utility program to do this, using a window similar to that provided by QUSCMDLN. But, I would use QCAPCMD to run the command, and store the returned command string if there were no errors, or the original command string if there were (along with an error flag). Storage would be in a local (QTEMP) file with a variable-length field to hold the command string.

If you wanted to restrict by command name or other values, create an exclusion file (non-local, of course). Parse the command string for forbidden keywords, library names, command names (the command name is of course the first word in the string unless they write SBMJOB or similar)….

It does sound useful. I think I WILL write it.

By: tomliotta

tomliotta — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 21:32:41 +0000

Note that when using QUSCMDLN (or any similar system function that implements for commands), you still need to have the job’s LOG() level set high enough to log commands. If the job doesn’t log your commands, you can’t retrieve them through system functions.

If you display your own command line, you can simply store each one in an array with no regard for the job’s LOG() level.

Tom

By: kaisersosa

kaisersosa — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 19:00:07 +0000

The dead easiest thing to do would be what Sloopy and others suggested, use the quscmdln.

//—————————————————————
// Prototyped call to get Command Line
//—————————————————————
d #CmdLine pr extpgm(‘QUSCMDLN’)

. . . . .

if dvInKey = F10;
#CmdLine();
endif;

By: kaisersosa

kaisersosa — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:57:51 +0000

I agree with Splat. With the qcapcmd api, if the user changes any of the parms, qcapcmd can ‘catch’ the changes.
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/index.jsp?topic=/apis/qcapcmd.htm

If you really want to punish yourself, you could use the User Interface Manager (UIM) apis. Then your F9=Retrieve is built in. Set aside a few months though.

John B

By: Aladiw

Aladiw — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 04:16:43 +0000

All you need to do is call QUSCMDLN (no parameters) from your program. IMHO Berita Aladiw | Belajar Aladiw

By: splat

splat — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:55:42 +0000

If you’re going to allow users to enter parameters in the commands, you might be better served using QCAPCMD rather than QCMDEXC.

By: vatchy

vatchy — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:29:09 +0000

If you’re using the display file in RPG then just create an array in which to save the commands.

By: sloopy

sloopy — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:32:01 +0000

All you need to do is call QUSCMDLN (no parameters) from your program. This will bring up the command line window – the same one you get from SEU when you press F21.

It already has a full F9=Retrieve function, built in.

However, you would have no control over the commands that could be entered. What the user can do from that command line is limited only by their security level and user type.

If you use the RCVMSG method, you want to receive message of type *RQS.

Regards,

Sloopy