Communications Script Substitution Variables

Control/Communications Script Substitution Variables


The CMDEXC function has been enhanced to allow for continuation lines (total command string length after substitution parameters may be up to 992 characters) and for a flag which will cause any error in executing a command to be ignored.

The control script functions WRTLINE (write a line as if received) and CMDEXC (execute a command using the QCMDEXC function) each use the 120-character “script text” field to represent a string of textual data. The following discussion refers equally to either function.

If the “script factor 1” contains the word “CONTINUE”, successive script lines are appended to each other until a line where factor 1 does not contain “CONTINUE” is found. Each line is appended at a length equal to the number in “factor 1 parm 1” of each line; if this number is zero, the actual length up to the last non-blank character is used on each appended line.

Once the complete concatenated string has been assembled, it is scanned for all occurrences of any of the substitution variables listed below. The prefix “@” used below is the default value; any other character which does not otherwise appear in the data may be used in place of “@” by specifying it as the first character of “script factor 2” in the last line of a continued group. Different sets of continued lines in the same script may use different substitution prefixes.

Note that the substitution variables have a replacement length which is in general different than the length (always = 3) of the symbolic variable @xx. The numeric variables are always replaced by a fixed number of digits as listed below; the character variables have trailing blanks suppressed after each substitution is made. The resulting concatenated string with replacements made is treated as being of the length specified in “factor 1 parm 2” of the last continued line; if this number is zero, the actual length up to the last non-blank character is used as the output length. The maximum total string length of a group of continued lines is 992 characters.

Substitution variables may be used in the script text string as follows:
                                                                  
Variable	Value				Valid values or range       
  @C1	Century as 0=19, 1=20	0-1                         
  @CC	Century as CC	19-20                       
  @YY	Year as YY	00	99              
  @MM	Month as MM	01	12              
  @DD	Day as DD	01	31  
  @YD	Date as YYMMDD	000101	991231          
  @DY	Date as DDMMYY	010100	311299          
  @MY	Date as MMDDYY	010100	123199          
  @CD	Date as CCYYMMDD	19400101	20391231        
  @JJ	"Julian" day of year DDD	001	365             
  @YJ	Date as YYDDD	00001	99365           
  @CJ	Date as CCYYDDD	1940001	2039365         
                                                                  
  @HH	Hour as HH	00	23              
  @MI	Minute as MM	00	59              
  @SS	Second as SS	00	59              
  @HS	Time as HHMMSS	000000	235959          
 
  @TR	Total records	00000000	99999999  
  @DR	Data records	000000 	999999    
  @ER	Envelope records 	000000	999999    
  @JB	Job name	char 10                     
  @JU	Job user profile	char 10                     
  @JN	Job number	000000	999999          

  @CL	Connection log number	0000000	9999999   
  @CS	Control script code	char 10               
  @NW	Network ID	char 15               
  @NP	Network port	char  6               
   
Network port attributes:                                 
  @NZ	Port description	char  25              
  @NT	Telephone number 	char  14              
  @NN	Connection nbr (dial cmd)	char  25              
  @NL	Line description	char  10                    
  @NC	Controller description	char  10                    
  @ND	Device description	char  10                    
  @NM	Communications type	char   1                    
  @NX	Connection type	char   1                    
  @NR	Max record length	00000	99999           
  @NB	Max block length	00000	99999           

The date and time used for substitution purposes are initialized as equal to the "start of call" of the current log of connection record; they may be reset to the current system clock value during script processing with the script function SETTIME.

The record counters (@TR, @DR, @ER) are initialized at zero; the script function RESET may be used to simultaneously reset them all to zero at any point in script processing. Since the communications and import programs (STRCTLSCRR and CVTWRPR respectively) do not actually interpret the content of data records, the “envelope records” counter does not represent actual EDI standard envelope segments. "Envelope records" is incremented whenever a WRTLIN script statement is executed. "Data records" means records written to the wrapped data file. "Total records" is slightly different in import vs. actual communications: when used in the communications program STRCTLSCRR, it means the sum of actual communications records sent and received; for import, it means "envelope records" + "data records" since there is no true equivalent to communications records.

                                                                  
  @P1	Script parameter 1	char 1-30             
  @P2	Script parameter 2	char 1-30             
  @P3 	Script parameter 3	char 1-30             
  @P4	Script parameter 4 	char 1-30             
  @P5	Script parameter 5 	char 1-30             
  @P6 	Script parameter 6	char 1-30             
  @P7	Script parameter 7	char 1-30             
  @P8	Script parameter 8 	char 1-30             
  @P9	Script parameter 9	char 1-30             





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