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If there is anyone left on the list who can answer this then I would appreciate
the information.

I have an existing QUIZ program that prompts the user for a number of
transactions terminated by a blank response then followed by a parameter
prompt, that has a default value is no data is provided, and which then runs.
The objective is to pass to the QUIZ program a set of prompt answers prepared
by a QUICK screen so that the user does not have to enter anything.

If necessary I can alter the QUIZ report, or create a variant, which reads the
propt data from a flat file created in the QUICK screen and eliminating the
second data prompt.  However, I thought to try and pass the information from
QUICK to QUIZ via STDIN.  And this is where I am having difficulty.

In the QUICK screen I create a temp file, QKARINE1, and write the transaction
code to the first line and blank lines to the next two records.  I then want to
pass this file to QUIZ via STDIN using "FILE STDIN=QKARINE1;TEMP".  If I do
this outside of QUICK then it works perfectly.  QUIZ picks up the responses
from STDIN and runs the report.

When I try this through a RUN COMMAND in QUICK then I get this error:
**** OPEN OF STDIN FAILED (CERR 14)

ABORT: QUIZ.PH839C.COGNOS
NM SYS   a.00fedf70 dbg_abort_trace+$28
NM USER  129.000ab208 _csu_error+$e4
NM PROG  b4.0019d4e0 _start+$20


Press RETURN to continue.


Now while STDIN is a designated file name for QDESIGN it is not listed as such
for QUICK itself.  So, I am sort of at a loss to understand why QUIZ cannot
open STDIN from inside QUICK.

Has anyone run into the situation of passing parameters to QUIZ from QUICK
without using a FILE in an ACCESS statement?  How was it solved or is a FILE
statement absolutely necessary?





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