Fwd: command line process

[scooter6 at gmail.com]

So apparently it's necessary to make  fa  a global in  changeacctnumsel
It works if I put     fa(11,allup,g)=@px     and then run
 /u/appl/fp/dreport filename -f changeacctnum -rx 10000-00001 -u -a -v
changeacctnumsel -ia

FYI




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From: scooter6 at gmail.com <scooter6 at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 11:34 AM
Subject: command line process
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I have the following

/u/appl/fp/rreport filename -f changeacctnum -u -a -v changeacctnumsel -ia

(Index A is the field to be changed)

changeacctnumsel looks like this

If:  fa=""
Then: input fa(11,allup) "Enter acct to change"

If: 1 lt fa
Then: lookup -  k=fa    i=A  -eg

If: 1 gt fa
Then: la(11,allup)="99999-99999"

If: 1 gt fa
Then:  lookupu -  k=la   i=A -el

If: 1 lt fa
Then: end

If: 1 gt fa
Then: end

If:
Then: select

This works perfectly - my processing  changeacctnum runs fine and does what
I want it to do

However, if I change the first line to be :

If:
Then:  fa(11,allup)=@px

...and rest of code is the same, and I run this from the command line

/u/appl/fp/dreport filename -f changeacctnum -rx 10000-00001 -u -a -v
changeacctnumsel -ia

I get no errors but it doesn't do what  changeacctnum processing is
supposed to do

I have tried it with "10000-00001" in quotes also but same result

What I'm trying to do is write a process that will change acct number if
there needs to be an 'associate' account number - so the field in question
is actually 13 characters long
So I'm wanting to change all records it finds that are  10000-00001 to
10000-00001-1
As I said, this works fine if changeacctnumsel doesn't try to use @px but
there are several files I need to add the -1 to so rather than someone
having to input the account number multiple times, I'm trying to pass it as
-rx flag to the other files so user inputs 10000-00001 just once and it
makes changes to all pertinent files

What am I missing here?

thanks

Scott
PDM
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