RE: I need a request-message handling program with prompting

Steve,

There is another way to prompt a command.  Try the QCAPCMD API.  With it you
can specify that a command always be prompted and also run in a single call.
I have replaced my use of QCMDEXC with this API for all HLL command
processing.  This link should take you to the documentation.

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r2/ic2924/index.htm

HTH,

Rick


Steve wrote:
I just about have my solution built, and there is only one thing I don't
like about it.  As Buck suggested (and from my limited testing), the only
way you can prompt a command using a request-message handling program is to
put a ? in front of the command.  F4 won't prompt from this screen.

My program calls QCMDCHK, which will prompt the command if a ? is in front
of it.  It then passes back the full command string, which I then pass to
QCMDEXC to execute.  If it fails, you get blown out and an error message is
displayed on the bottom line of the JDE menu, showing the error that
occurred.