Forwarded to list with Jerry's permission:

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

>Forwarded from Paul Christidis:

/snip

>  >: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

Would be better if we had an intrinsic API as well so parsing the CI output
was not an issue, but given effort/etc., the CI-output is better than
nothing!  I tend to agree with Paul's suggesting in terms of placement of
the variable length components....

/jf


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