Help in Creating User Defined Commands

[Aravind]

for my project i have to create User defined command, i am able to careate a command but i am facing some issue in Specifying (Displaying) the text that is displayed to the right of the prompt line of each parameter on the prompt screen. It is working fine if i use the field length less than 13 but i could not get it right if i use the field length greater than or equal to 13. i do not know whether i have explained my issue correctly...

for example

My code looks like the folloiwng

CMD PROMPT('Test Command')
PARM KWD(TEXT) TYPE(*NAME) LEN(3) RSTD(*NO) +
CHOICE('TEXT1 OR TEXT2') +
PROMPT('TEXT')

PARM KWD(TEST) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(13) RSTD(*NO) +
CHOICE('TEXT1 OR TEXT2') +
PROMPT('FIELD LENGTH 13')

the result looks like the folliwng

TEXT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TEXT1 OR TEXT2
FIELD LENGTH 13 . . . . . . . .


but i want to display TEXT1 OR TEXT2 for the second field also (Field length 13)

i have tried all the possible ways whcih i know. i doubt there is some restriction to display this... would be great help if any one give me some suggetions


thanks
aravind

[jamief]

Re: Help in Creating User Defined Commands

Did you ever solve this...I really havent used commands in a very long time and
when I did I wasnt very good at them

The only way I could get it to work is make the field lengths the same size (3)


jamie

[GLS400]

Re: Help in Creating User Defined Commands

From IBM

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r2/ic2924/index.htm?info/rbam6/rbam6printingme.htm

Possible Choices and Values

The prompter will display possible choices for parameters to the right of the input field on the prompt displays. The text to be displayed can be created automatically, specified in the command definition source, or created dynamically by an exit program. Text describing possible choices can be defined for any PARM, ELEM, or QUAL statement, but because of limitations in the display format, the text is displayed only for values with a field length of 12 or less, 10 or less for all but the first qualifier in a group.

Best of Luck
GLS

[jamief]

Re: Help in Creating User Defined Commands

Ur the man.......