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From: ""Mark Zelden"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Mark,
Do you have a REXX Exec in your bag of tricks that lists out the other
CMD characters in use on a system, like in 'D OPDATA'?? Or does such code
exist on the CBT tape somewhere?
No can do. If it was that easy, don't you think D OPDATA would do
it and products wouldn't need to register their command character
usage using a formal interface?
Actually, I put together a rexx exec that works out what command reference
characters are being used (it goes through JES3 DLOG, so only commands
actually used can be found). Also, it expects that you define the ones
you know about, or else the report gets redundant. It would take some
work to make this "JES2 ready", but it does work, and ignores typos,
which really helps the length of the report.
This came about because the IMS folks added about 70 of 'em (nothing like
being a good sized shop), and managed to step all over one poor support
guy. He had to make changes in 26 environments because supporting one
product was nothing compared to IMS type momentum.
Anyway, there is also a little web app to keep track of all this. You can
bring up a web page and display the whole list, or search for the string
you would like to use, or register your string.
It even detects partials, in the case above, the '#' was used for some
product, and IMS defined many of the form '#xx'. So this page detects
those kinds of conflicts also. We run the web page from our MVS http
server.
If anyone is interested, it's free for the asking.
Lance
Keep good doc. Anything "new" you define, use more than a single
character to avoid conflicts (and use D OPDATA). If you really want
to use a single character or don't have a choice and aren't sure if
it is currently used, just type that character at the console. If you
see "IEE305I ? COMMAND INVALID" (where ? = the character) then it
should mean that character is not in use.
Mark
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