DEFCNTX and APDFCNTX parameters

DEFCNTX Default file or group context APDFCNTX Default file or group context when APSY command issued

Summary

Default value

None

Parameter type

User

Where set

View-only

Related products

All

Introduced

Model 204 V7.4 or earlier

Description

These parameters are better than using $View('CURFILE') because:

• CURFILE returns a null string if the default context is a group.
• CURFILE is affected by the IN clause prior to a Begin command and can be affected by the In clause prior to many SOUL statements.
• APDFCNTX provides information not about the default context when the request was compiled, but

If there is no default context, the value of the parameters is the null string.

Otherwise $View('DEFCNTX') returns the type of context (FILE, TEMP GROUP, or PERM GROUP) followed by the file or group name, with trailing blanks removed.

$View('APDFCNTX') returns the same information based on the default context when the APSY was entered, unless that is the same as one of the files or groups in the subsystem's definition; in that case, the null string is returned.

Notes: In versions 7.4 and 7.5, these parameters are only available using the $View function, for example:

print $view('DEFCNTX')

• Prior to version 7.6, they are not available with the VIEW command.
• In version 7.4, they were implemented as part of maintenance - Early Warning 740EW159.
• In version 7.4, they were implemented as part of maintenance - zap 75Z054.