These are personal utility commands that I wrote somewhere in my career. They made my life easier. Maybe they will make your life easier.
And you can see some examples of simple command definitions.
QRY - Query (List) File Contents
This just a quick and dirty shorthand way to look at the contents of a file. You probably know that you can list the contents of a file by RUNQRY *NONE filename. I got tried of typing the *NONE and instead wanted to simply enter QRY filename. Hence this command.
QRY invokes RUNQRY internally. RUNQRY is the runtime component of the old Query/400 product. It you understand Query/400 and you really want to, you can tell QRY to open up for entry of selection criteria.
Typical QRY, file in library list
QRY With Selection, specifying the library
This opens up the RUNQRY selection dialog:
With results like this:
QRY
The command source
QRYC
The CLP command processing program
RC - Display File Record Count
This provides a popup window showing the number of records in a file.
It also shows the number of deleted records. If there are greater than 10% deleted this is highlighted:
You can press F5 and watch any add or delete activity on the file.
RC defaults to the *FIRST member, but you can specify a member:
I also have a PDM User-Defined RC option: RC FILE(&O/&N). So in PDM I can do:
which gives this:
RC
The command source
RCC
The CLLE source of the command processing program
RCDD
The display file for the window