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Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2003 4:58 pm
by ray.wurlod
There are two main ways to accomplish this; to have the paragraph RUN a BASIC program that interrogates its command line/stack, or to use "inline prompting" with controls that obtain information from the command line.
What exactly are you trying to accomplish? In particular, are you using the UniVerse database, or UniData, or are you trying to use stored procedures in DataStage?
To find out more about BASIC interrogating the command line, check out @COMMAND and @SENTENCE in the BASIC manual.
To find out more about inline prompting, consult the manual appropriate to your U2 database or, at the UniVerse TCL prompt, enter the command "help