CL Programming

Using the QCMDEXC Program with DBCS Data

You can use QCMDEXC to request double-byte character set (DBCS) input data to be entered with a command. The command format used for QCMDEXC to prompt double-byte data is:

CALL QCMDEXC ('command' command-length IGC)

The third parameter of the QCMDEXC program, IGC, instructs the system to accept double-byte data. For example, the following CL program asks a user to provide double-byte text for a message. Then the system sends the following message:

PGM
   CALL QCMDEXC ('?SNDMSG' 7 IGC)
ENDPGM

An explanation of the system message follows:

The following display is shown after running the QCMDEXC program. You can use double-byte conversion on this display:

+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                           SEND MESSAGE (SNDMSG)                                |
|                                                                                |
|TYPE CHOICES, PRESS ENTER.                                                      |
|                                                                                |
|MESSAGE TEXT . . . . . . . . . . . .  _______________________________________   |
|_____________________________________________________________________________   |
|_____________________________________________________________________________   |
|_____________________________________________________________________________   |
|_____________________________________________________________________________   |
|_____________________________________________________________________________   |
|___________________________________________________________________             |
|TO USER PROFILE . . . . . . . . . .  __________  NAME, *SYSOPR, *ALLACT...      |
|                                                                                |
|                                                                                |
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|                                                                                |
|                                                                        BOTTOM  |
| F3=EXIT   F4=PROMPT   F5=REFRESH   F10=ADDITIONAL PARAMETERS  F12=CANCEL       |
| F13=HOW TO USE THIS DISPLAY   F24=MORE KEYS                                    |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+


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