RE: Missing from RPG/LE

["Simon Coulter" <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Joe,

Assuming you intend displaying the 'WarningMsg' to a user:

Use real messages and substitution data to do this!  The proper way is to send 
messages to a message subfile 
with the QMHSNDPM API.  However, if you must display dynamic text in the panel 
you can still use messages and 
retrieve them via the QMHRTVM API (or the ERRMSGID keyword for displays but I 
think that sucks too).  The 
advantage of messages is that the message handler does the formatting, you can 
change the text at will (no 
recompiles), you get national language support, and it's release independant.

I think UCS2 is Unicode.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.

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> Date: Wed, 07 Oct 98 22:36:12 -0500
> From: "Joe Teff" <jteff19@idt.net>
> To: "'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'" <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
> Reply-To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: Missing from RPG/LE

> 
> What is a UCS2 data type?
> 
> Looking back at a handout from the Spring COMMON, I noticed that the
> %CHECK, %CHECKR, %XLATE and %SCANR BIF's are not on this list?
> Were they dropped or delayed?
> 
> I frequently need to concatenate numeric fields onto text. %CHAR only
> works with graphics and date/time data types. I've started to use the
> %EDITW BIF to do this. For example, ITEMNO is a 7-digit field:
> 
>   C                                        Eval         WarningMsg = 'Item ' +
>   C                                                        %EDITW(ITEMNO:'0   
>    ') +
>   C                                                        ' is being 
>obsoleted'
> 
> Is this a good way to do it or is it better to move ITEMNO to a charater
> field before doing the concatenation? Or is there a better way to do it in
> a single statement. BTW, I'm on V4R2.
> 
> Joe Teff
> Information Technology Consultant
> IBM Certified Specialist - AS/400 RPG Programmer
> Quality Data Systems
> Minneapolis, MN

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