Forwarded from Paul Christidis:

Subject: Re: (Fwd) Re: Design for System CI vars (long)

[snip]

>I agree.  I was thinking of an enhancement to the SHOWVAR command.  For
>instance:
   >:setvar aa 1
   >:setvar bb "2"
   >:showvar aa,bb
    >AA = 1
    >BB = 2
>
>You can't tell that BB is a string and AA is an integer.  What if...
>
  >:showvar aa,bb ;format=detail
>
>VarName       Type      Scope     Owner        Access       Value
>AA            INT       JOB                                 1
>BB            STR[1]    SYS       MANAGER.SYS  R-only       2

[snip]

>Obviously the columns won't line up with long varnames, but you get the idea.


How about placing the 'variable length' items on the right side:

:setvar DEFAULT_MENU "APPL_MAINTENANCE"

:showvar aa,bb,def@ ;format=detail

Type      Scope   Owner          Access    VarName|Value
INT       JOB                              AA|1
STR[1]    SYS     MANAGER.SYS    R-only    BB|2
STR[16]   JOB     MGR.USRACCT    R-only    DEFAULT_MENU|APPL_MAINTENANCE


Regards (and permission to forward)

Paul Christidis

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