Defining a qualified name CL command parameter

If a parameter value or list item is a qualified name, you must define the name separately using Qualifier (QUAL) statements. Each part of the qualified name must be defined with a QUAL statement. The parts of a qualified name must be described in the order in which they occur in the qualified name. You must specify *NAME or *GENERIC in the first QUAL statement. The associated PARM or ELEM statement must identify the label that refers to the first QUAL statement for the qualified name.

The following command definition statements define the most common qualified name. A qualified object consists of the library name that contains an object followed by the name of the object itself. The QUAL statements must appear in the order in which they are to occur in the qualified name.

Many of the parameters that can be specified for the QUAL statement are the same as those described for the PARM statement. However, only the following values can be specified for the TYPE parameter:

• *NAME
• *GENERIC
• *CHAR
• *INT2
• *INT4

When a qualified name is passed to the command processing program, the format varies depending on whether you are using CL (or another high-level language) or REXX.