Re: Shelling out CRTLF via QCMDEXC -- question about success/failure

Thanks very much, Barbara. I hadn't thought about that and will go back to QCMDEXC. 

> On 06/12/2026 8:16 PM EDT Barbara Morris <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>  
> On 2026-06-09 10:57 a.m., Rob Berendt wrote:
> > I was a big fan of system(), until I was not.  I forget why.  Others have
> > alluded to the ease of getting the error with QCAPCMD instead.  
> 
> I don't like system() because it removes the final escape message from 
> the joblog. If you get an unexpected exception, the only thing you can 
> get from _EXCP_MSGID is the message ID. Any substitution values are lost.
> 
> Also, system() doesn't remove any diagnostic messages that precede the 
> final escape message. That can make the joblog look very strange if 
> something bad happens.
> 
> For me, the extra coding for QCMDEXC or QCAPCMD is worth it to get a 
> good joblog if something unexpected happens.
> 
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