Use an editor to make a file named PHRS that contains 1 line reading EXIT.
Place this file in the same group as the dictionary. For whatever reason,
quiz attempts to read this file at startup and it defaults to $stdin if
it is not present. Hence, to satisfy this read you have to enter an extra
carriage return.

Hope this helps....

1/24/98

>I just updated from MPEix 5.0 to 5.5 ppatch 4 and everything went well
>except:
>My Cognos UDCs that worked fine under 5.0 seem to be expecting input before
>actually executing the application. example:
>Where we used to be able to type QUIZ at CI prompt and get immediate
>response
>MCOA:quiz
>
>Q U I Z   (7.29.C)       Level 40
>Copyright 1994 COGNOS INCORPORATED
>
>>
>
>When we do it now it just comes back to next line and waits. If you hit
>return again it proceeds to execute. This is especially distressing in
>Vesoft security menus and I wonder how jobstreams using these products will
>react.
>Any responses will be appreciated either to list or to me at
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>The udc looks like this:
>
>MCOA:help quiz
>User-defined command:
>
>QUIZ INFO="", VERS=CURRENT, INTERBASE=NO AUTO="", CC="()",
>DICT="QSCHEMAC.ROOTSR
>CE.MANMAN", DICTIONARY="", LIST=YES, OWNER="", PROCLOC="", SEARCH=FIRST,
>SHIFT=U
>P, STATISTICS=YES, MODULELOC="", PHLIBODX=""
>COMMENT
>COMMENT The INTERBASE parameter is used to indicate whether or not
>COMMENT StarBase is going to be used in this PowerHouse call; and if so,
>COMMENT what version.  The default is that StarBase is not going to be
>COMMENT used, "INTERBASE=NO".  In the event that StarBase is always being
>COMMENT used, please edit this file such that "INTERBASE=YES".
>COMMENT
>COMMENT If the parameter "INTERBASE" = "YES", the default version of
>COMMENT StarBase will be used.  Otherwise, the user may specify the
>COMMENT version of StarBase that they want to use by setting the parameter
>COMMENT "INTERBASE" to the desired version.  i.e. "INTERBASE=V33D"
>COMMENT
>SETJCW CIERROR 0
>CONTINUE
>SETPOWERHOUSE !VERS
>IF "!DICT"="" THEN
>    SETVAR PHDICT,"!DICTIONARY"
>ELSE
>    SETVAR PHDICT,"!DICT"
>ENDIF
>IF "!PHLIBODX"<>"" THEN
>    FILE PHLIBODX=!PHLIBODX
>ENDIF
>IF CIERROR = 0 THEN
>  CONTINUE
>  PHRUNPROG QUIZ.!VERS.COGNOS, "!INFO", "!AUTO", "!CC", "!PHDICT", "!LIST",
>"!OW
>NER", "!PROCLOC", "!SEARCH", "!SHIFT", "!STATISTICS", "*PHLIBODX",
>"!MODULELOC",
> "!INTERBASE"
>ENDIF
>IF (BOUND(PHDICT)) THEN
>  DELETEVAR PHDICT
>ENDIF
>RESETPOWERHOUSE
>
>
>Thanks for the help.
>
Gary L. Biggs, N5TTO
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