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In IBM i Access for Windows, the STRPCCMD PAUSE(*YES/*NO) has an unfortunate and long history of behaving differently depending on which version (eg ServicePack) of the product was being used. For the initial release of IBM i Access Client Solutions, the decision was made to ignore the previous behavior and make it match the behavior you are requesting. As more and more customers began migrating from our legacy product, additional variations and uses of the STRPCCMD have surfaced that have required us to make changes so that it perfectly matches the behavior of IBM i Access for Windows. That has made it impossible for us to support the behavior you are requesting and also match what the majority of our customers expect. The confusion is that the parameter should really be named PROMPT and not PAUSE. In all cases, the command issued to the PC must finish. You will notice that the help text you provided for *NO says "...returns...after the command runs". That really means, after the PC command, not the STRPCCMD itself. The PAUSE parameter was provided for cases when the user wanted a "pause" command issued on the PC side which would cause a prompt to appear (waiting for user intervention).
As a possible solution for the scenario you have described where you want the PC command to run in the background on the PC while the STRPCCMD returns immediately, consider adding the "start" keyword in front of your PC command in combination with PAUSE(*NO). That will make the PC command run in the background and your STRPCCMD should return immediately. For example:
STRPCCMD PCCMD('start Start_Programs\Windows_x86-64\acslaunch_win-64.exe') PAUSE(*NO)
The behaviour you describe for PAUSE(*NO) is the faulty way it was implemented in ACS. In Client Access STRPCCMD PAUSE(*NO) waited until the called program had finished processing.
The changed behaviour caused many problems and was reported in
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=91554
The behaviour you want could be implemented by expanding the possible STRPCCMD PAUSE values. For example if PAUSE(*NONE) is specified then it could behave like you want. It could also be a time interval fx PAUSE(10) for a 10 second delay, PAUSE(0) for no delay etc.