Re: Utility to extract constant text to file out of *DSPF and RPG O specs

[Simon Coulter <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday, March 5, 2004, at 09:43  PM, L. Maartens wrote:

> For display files this means that I want to put all screen constants 
> with
> text in them into a data base file, which can then be loaded using the
> *Inzsr routine in the RPG programs.

Use the MSGCON or MSGID DDS keyword and let the system do the work for 
you.

> Printouts are defined using RPG O specs. I am looking into using the 
> same
> concept I as I want to use for the display files.

Convert to DDS and use MSGCON. Other benefits will ensue too. There are 
third-party tools to do conversion. See 
http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/199904/msg00427.html

> The process is quite a handfull to do manually, so I am looking for an
> automated way to do this. The most cumbersome thing for me to do is to
> extract all literals. This means I need to read all source files with 
> DDS
> specs, and then determine which lines contain a literal, and also take 
> care
> of the continuation lines.
>
> Does anyone care to share such a utility, if it does exist at all?

There are some third-party tools to do this. See http://www.navan.co.uk/

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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