RE: Multilingual Screens

Chris,

You can specify MSGID in/on your screen and have your application
RPG/COBOL whatever move a specific number to the MSGID. This would
populate the MESSAGE with the corresponding info. Doing this involves
creating a message file and populating the file with (in your case
multiple language) messages.
You could prefix each message with an identifier e.g... GKMS001 or
SPMS001 etc..

These two lines go in you DDS

 A            MSGNBR         7A  H                                 
 A            SCRMSGA       77A  B 23  2MSGID(&MSGNBR QGPL/TLSMSGF)
 
This is how you set the message in COBOL

      MOVE "TLI0002" TO MSGNBR IN LSSU801R3-O 

You can also use as many message files as you need. for instance you
could create a Greek msgf a Spanish msgf etc, the just code multiple
message lines like the SCRMSGA and point to the language you need.
Note that in this example you will need to use indicators to select
the lib/msgf for the language.

Hope this helps!

_____________________________________________________________________
Howard Weatherly

hweatherly@dlis.dla.mil
howard.weatherly@ctg.com
hweath@ibm.net

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 <<Multilingual Screens>> 

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• Subject: Multilingual Screens
• From: Chris.Chambers@xxxxxxxxxxx
• Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 12:30:04 -0500

I am constructing a system which needs the screens to be presented to
each
user in the langauage of their choice(eg English, German, French,
Italian
and Greek).

I am initially exploring this using message files via the ERRMSGID and
MSGCON keywords in the DDS. But it seems one has to designate the
exact
message file at compilation and so compile the DDS once for each
language
used which is a pain and means one has to retain multiple libraries of
screens.

Perhaps the COBOL programs could populate the texts on screen using a
different msg file via OVRDBF at run time but what about the time
overhead
and the normal DDS ERRMSG processing would be lost.

Anyone got any experience in this area? Any ideas or tips ideas
gratefully
appreciated.

Kind Regards,

Chris


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