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).

Parameters

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

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

1. 'xxxxx' is the number of a primary auxiliary storage pool (ASP).
2. 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.

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.

Error messages

*ESCAPE Messages

CPF9809

Library &1 cannot be accessed.

CPF9810

Library &1 not found.