Re: QMSHNDPM API

["David Morris" <David.Morris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Simon,

To a certain degree you can use a fixed name. By default, I send all
user messages for interactive jobs to a single program queue. In a batch
job I send them to *PRV. I also do this with a standard set of
procedures I wrote a few years back. Those procedures hide many of the
ugly details of PEPs etc. They do allow you to override this behavior.

The procedures I use are available free and are open source. Anyone can
download them as part of the iSereis-toolkit at
http://www.iseries-toolkit.org. The documentation page for the project
contains an example showing how the message procedures are used.

David Morris

>>> shc@flybynight.com.au 02/22/02 22:15 PM >>>

...You'll probably find that it was sent to the _QRNP_PEP_mod-name
procedure
(where mod-name is the name of the main module).  You can use the prefix
'_QRNP_PEP_' and concatenate the contents of the *PROC field from the
Program Status Data Structure to derive the name of the entry procedure
and
send the mesage to 1 above that.  For example:

D PSDS          DS
D   PSDS_Pgm                  *PROC

C callp     SndPgmMsg('CPF9898':
C                     'QCPFMSG   *LIBL  ':
C                     MsgTxt:
C                     %Len(MsgTxt):
C                     '*INFO':
C                     '_QRNP_PEP_' + PSDS_Pgm :
C                     1:
C                     KeyVal:
C                     dsEC)

NOTE: While prototyping the API directly is a good idea you should also
encaspulate it in a procedure that can determine most of the input
parameters itself.  Doing this properly will simplfy the interface
immensely.

(Of course if the compiler used a fixed entry name like CLLE and C do
you
wouldn't have to stuff around with building a call stack entry name and
could simply encapsulate the target call stack queue in the procedure)

Regards,
Simon Coulter.