Re: How to track the error messages in CL program for called RPGLE programs

Sam,

I had assumed (always dangerous I know) that since techie21/Rishi was using
DSPLY (and that the original program was not since Rishi is customizing the
text) that change to the programs would be possible. As Barbara points
out, if change to PGMA and PGMB is not allowed, but change to the CL
program is, then using an approach like she described would meet the
requirement. The only change I would make is that using List Job Log
Messages (QMHLJOBL)
<https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_ibm_i_74/apis/QMHLJOBL.htm>
isn't
really all that hard (smiley face as it really all depends, but once you
learn a list API...).

A related approach would be to use Open List of Job Log Messages (QGYOLJBL)
<https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_ibm_i_74/apis/QGYOLJBL.htm>
.

On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 12:59 PM Sam_L <lennon_s_j@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It seems like PGMA may be a poorly written program, and I got the
impression from earlier in the thread that techie21 did not want to
change it, or was not allowed to change it, or didn't have the
experience to change it. And thus may have been given an impossible job.

Your solution using *ESCAPE certainly will work and I hope there is
enough experience to implement it. (Your level of assistance is
exemplary.).

I suppose the alternative is to add a parameter to PGMA which is
returned as blank if no error and contains the error message if there is
an error.

Sam


On 12/19/2019 10:23 AM, Bruce Vining wrote:

I can safely say I would never have guessed techie21 was using DSPLY.
DSPLY sends *INFO message RNI5334, which is not an *ESCAPE -- *ESCAPE
being one of the message types (along with *NOTIFY and *STATUS) that can

be

monitored (as has been mentioned in earlier responses by others). I'll
append an example shortly using *ESCAPE.

Bruce

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