Work with Form Definitions (WRKFORMDF)

Where allowed to run: Interactive environments (*INTERACT *IPGM *IREXX *EXEC)
Threadsafe: No

The Work with Form Definitions (WRKFORMDF) command allows you to work with all of the form definition objects from the system or user libraries (or both).

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Keyword	Description	Choices	Notes
FORMDF	Form definition	Qualified object name	Optional, Positional 1
Qualifier 1: Form definition	Generic name, name, *ALL
Qualifier 2: Library	Name, LIBL, CURLIB, USRLIBL, ALLUSR, *ALL

Form definition (FORMDF)

Specifies the name and library of the form definition to work with. Only those form definitions for which the user has authority are shown.

This is a required parameter.

Qualifier 1: Form definition

*ALL: Specifies all form definitions to work with.
generic-name: Specify the generic name of the form definitions to work with. A generic name is a character string that contains one or more characters followed by an asterisk (*). If a generic name is specified, then all form definitions that have names with the same prefix as the generic form definition name are worked with.
name: Specify the name of the form definition to work with.

Qualifier 2: Library

*LIBL: All libraries in the library list for the current thread are searched. All objects in these libraries with the specified object name are shown.

*CURLIB: The current library for the job is searched for form definitions to work with. If no library is specified as the current library for the job, QGPL is used.

*USRLIBL: If a current library entry exists in the library list for the current thread, the current library and the libraries in the user portion of the library list are searched. If there is no current library entry, only the libraries in the user portion of the library list are searched.

*ALLUSR

All user libraries are searched. All libraries with names that do not begin with the letter Q are searched except for the following:

#CGULIB     #DSULIB     #SEULIB
#COBLIB     #RPGLIB
#DFULIB     #SDALIB

Although the following Qxxx libraries are provided by IBM, they typically contain user data that changes frequently. Therefore, these libraries are considered user libraries and are also searched:

QDSNX       QRCLxxxxx   QUSRDIRDB   QUSRVI
QGPL        QSRVAGT     QUSRIJS     QUSRVxRxMx
QGPL38      QSYS2       QUSRINFSKR
QMGTC       QSYS2xxxxx  QUSRNOTES
QMGTC2      QS36F       QUSROND
QMPGDATA    QUSER38     QUSRPOSGS
QMQMDATA    QUSRADSM    QUSRPOSSA
QMQMPROC    QUSRBRM     QUSRPYMSVR
QPFRDATA    QUSRDIRCF   QUSRRDARS
QRCL        QUSRDIRCL   QUSRSYS

'xxxxx' is the number of a primary auxiliary storage pool (ASP).
A different library name, in the format QUSRVxRxMx, can be created by the user for each previous release supported by IBM to contain any user commands to be compiled in a CL program for the previous release. For the QUSRVxRxMx user library, VxRxMx is the version, release, and modification level of a previous release that IBM continues to support.

*ALL: All libraries in the system, including QSYS, are searched.

name: Specify a library name. Only the library named in this parameter is searched for form definitions to work with.

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Examples

WRKFORMDF   FORMDF(*CURLIB/FORMDF1)

This command searches the current library for the form definition FORMDF1. If FORMDF1 does not exist, the WRKFORMDF panel shows a message indicating that an object matching the specified name cannot be found.

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Error messages

*ESCAPE Messages

CPF9809: Library &1 cannot be accessed.
CPF9810: Library &1 not found.