Specifying values on the RUN command

You can assign a value to a substitution variable using the RUN command:

• In your linear procedure:

  RUN PROC SCHEDULE (&&TYPE='VACATION'

• In your procedure with logic:

  "RUN PROC SCHEDULE (&&TYPE='VACATION'"

If you issue the QMF RUN command from within a PROC or QUERY panel, you do not need to specify the PROC or QUERY object types. RUN assumes these values when you invoke it from their respective panels.

The value of &TYPE is available only to the procedure called SCHEDULE.

In this example:

• The variable value VACATION is surrounded by single quotes because the value is a character string.
• TYPE is preceded by double ampersands (&&) to indicate that the value is being set on the RUN statement to be passed to the procedure named SCHEDULE. If the RUN statement specifies &TYPE, the procedure containing this statement prompts the user for the value.

This value for the substitution variable is active only within the procedure that defines it. The value is not active in any procedure or module called from the defining procedure.