Special SPDO Statements

The SPDO commands described in this section require that ACLSPECIAL= is enabled for your SPDO LIBNAME connection.

To enable ACLSPECIAL=, you must first grant the SPD Server user ID ACLSPECIAL= access rights. Next, the user must request access for a specific connection. To request access, the user adds the ACLSPECIAL=YES option to the LIBNAME statement. The user can now submit SPDO commands:

SPDSCMD 'command'

The PROC SPDO SPDSCMD statement sends SPD Server a command to run. SPD Server uses the host system() call to run the command. The command is executed according to the user ID rights of the individual or administrator that started the SPD Server session. SPD Server returns the system() call value to PROC SPDO. PROC SPDO echoes the exit status of the command that was run on the host.

No restrictions are placed on commands that are executed in this manner. Therefore, you must carefully consider which SPD Server users need ACLSPECIAL access rights.

List the WORKPATH directory:

spdscmd 'ls /spdswork/*.spds';
spdscmd 'dir d:\spdswork\*.spds';

Clean up WORKPATH files:

spdscmd 'rm /spdswork/*.spds';
spdscmd 'del d:\spdswork\*.spds';