Difference between revisions of "CLP Coding Rules"

Revision as of 20:12, 25 June 2005

These rules apply both on Command Line and inside a CLP program.

Blank space separates parts of a command
- Example WRKOUTQ QFISCAL* to get at list of all OUTQ whose name starts with QFISCAL
Parentheses go around keywords and values
- Example SAVLIB LIB(XFILES) DEV(TAP01)
Slash connects parts of a qualified name or path name
- Example WRKOBJ XFILES/UFOS
Single apostrophe indicates beginning and end of a quoted character string (a constant)
- Example SNDMSG MSG('Intruder Alert') TOUSR(QBOSS)
*N is a place holder (take the defaults) indicating the absense of a positional parameter
- Example RUNQRY *N LOG
Predefined values begin with an asterisk and indicate IBM-defined values which are reserved by OS/400 and may be used in programs to have those set functions
- Example SAVLIB LIB(*ALLUSR) DEV(*SAVF)
Generic name contains one or more characters that are those that start some object(s) then end in asterisk to signify wild card list of all that share that prefix
- Example DSPF*

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 ** Example [[SNDMSG]] MSG('Intruder Alert') TOUSR(QBOSS)
 * *N is a place holder (take the defaults) indicating the absense of a positional parameter
-** Example RUNQRY *N LOG
+** Example [[RUNQRY]] *N LOG
 * Predefined values begin with an asterisk and indicate IBM-defined values which are reserved by [[OS/400]] and may be used in programs to have those set functions
 ** Example [[SAVLIB]] LIB(*ALLUSR) DEV(*SAVF)
 * Generic name contains one or more characters that are those that start some object(s) then end in asterisk to signify wild card list of all that share that prefix
 ** Example DSPF*