UnixCmdOA witth specific shell

[stefan@tageson.se]

Hi!
I would like to use /QOpenSys/pkgs/bin/bash as shell in unixcmdoa.
There's references on a "raw" option - any examples available on how to use this?
Thanks!

Stefan

[Scott Klement]

I don't think the raw option is what you're looking for. With raw, whatever you pass as the command is treated as a program to load and run in the spawned job. I don't think there's a way to make that work for what you're trying to do.

Take a look at the pipe_open() subproc in UNIXPIPER4. Find the code that looks like this:

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         select;
         when myType = 'Q';
           arg(1) = '/qsys.lib/qshell.lib/qzshsh.pgm' + x'00';
           arg(2) = '-c' + x'00';
           arg(3) = cmd + x'00';
           argc   = 3;
         when myType = 'P';
           arg(1) = '/qsys.lib/qp2shell.pgm' + x'00';
           arg(2) = '/qopensys/usr/bin/sh' + x'00';
           arg(3) = '-c' + x'00';
           arg(4) = cmd + x'00';
           argc   = 4;
         other;
           arg(1) = cmd + x'00';
           argc   = 1;
         endsl;

It seems to me that you want to add a 4th option thats 'B' (for bash) . It would be a copy of the 'P' code above, except replacing the /qopensys/usr/bin/sh shell with your path to bash.

Once you've added that, you'd edit UNIXCMDOA and add a 'bash' type in there that translates to 'B' before calling pipe_open().