Re: Parameter issues using QMHSNDPM API

[Simon Coulter <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 14/05/2009, at 1:04 PM, Scott Klement wrote:

> I guess my mistake was
> believing the help text for the MSGTYPE parm of SNDPGMMSG:
>
>                       Message type (MSGTYPE) - Help
>
>  Specifies which message type is assigned to this message when it is
> sent by this program.
>
>
>  Notes:
>    1.  Inquiry messages can be sent only to the external queue or to a
>        named message queue specified for the TOUSR or TOMSGQ  
> parameters.
>        When sending an inquiry with the TOMSGQ parameter, a second  
> queue
>        can be specified if the value is *HSTLOG.

True. If you want to send an inquiry message to a program queue you  
would use *NOTIFY.

>    2.  Completion, diagnostic, escape, notify, and status messages can
>        be sent only to a call message queue.

This is wrong. Simple logic says you must be able to send *COMP  
messages to a non-call message queue because message queue objects get  
job ended normally (CPF1241 *COMP) and abnormally (CPF1240 *COMP)  
messages. You can send any message type except *STATUS to any message  
queue.

>    3.  Escape messages cannot be sent to the external message queue.

This is wrong too. You can send an *ESCAPE message to *EXT. It will  
kill the job.

> Isn't a program message queue the same as a call message queue?

Sort of. A program message queue was what it was called before we got  
procedure support.


Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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