Re: Returning an error from QTVOPNVT

I'm a little new to this iSeries thing, and I have a problem I was
hoping someone could help me with...

I'm opening a virtual terminal session to an iSeries using the IBM API
QTVOPNVT in a C++ program using all three of the optional parameter
groups.

The current issue under test is what happens if the data queue
mentioned in the function call (6th parm) is missing. The program
works correctly in other circumstances with both exception handling
and error struct passing.

Using the pragma style exception handling, it correctly returns a
CPF9801 in the caught error. Passing in a Qus_EC struct with
Bytes_Provided set to a non-zero value crashes the program. Looking
in the IBM documentation for the API call, CPF9801 (or, for that
matter, any sort of "data queue not found" type error) doesn't appear
in the expected errors list, so I'm thinking it might not be able to
handle this eventuality.

My shop has strong feelings towards using only return value error
handling, so I'd prefer not to use the exception method, but the only
way I can think of to get around it right now is to first do another
API call to test existence of the data queue and I'd like to avoid the
performance hit.

Does anyone know if there's a way to get the best of both worlds?
Maybe I'm doing something wrong on the call...? Even confirmation
that I can't get a return of this value would be great.

Definition of API:


#pragma map(OpenVT,"QTVOPNVT")
extern "OS" void OpenVT(
char *,
char *,
int,
int,
int,
char *, /* Passing in a Queue here

does not exist */
char *,
int,
void *,
char *,
char *,
char *,
int);


Cheers,
Ryan
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