Re: show message on line 24

["James W. Kilgore" <eMail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dan,

As you do, for an application a separate message file is appropriate,
but since I'm not at my AS/400 I'm going to ask a dumb question: Do all
entries in QCPFMSG _have_ to start with CPF?  I don't think so.

So how about this:  You write a small CL utility program.  Upon an error
you want to display your own message DCL1001 (Dan's CL message 1001). 
Is it possible to MONMSG that the message was not found, call another CL
that adds the message to QCPFMSG and upon return your utility CL loops
back to show the message?  So you write a program (ADDDCLMSG or some
such) and pass to it which message that needs to be added and this way
you also have a single program that contains all of your own utility
messages?

This way even an OS upgrade would be self refreshing with user messages?

Just a thought.

D.BALE@handleman.com wrote:
> 
<<snip>>
> 
> I just know someone's gonna ask, well why not just create the message file?
> (Hey, Leif, why didn't you just create a message file?)  Maybe I'm just lazy,
> but I just think it's overkill to create a message file for a single-app
> utility.  I _do_ define message files for entire "application systems" that
> I've designed and written in the past.  But for the simple CL utility program?
>  Eh...
<<snip>>
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