Re: PROBLEM WITH V5R3 -- Workaround for Escape Messages

richard@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> ADDMSGD    MSGID(CPFFFFF) MSGF(QSYS/QCPFMSG) MSG('&1') SEV(30) +
>                FMT((*CHAR 45)) DMPLST(*NONE)

Dear Mr. Schoen (et al.):

Thanks for at least confirming that we're not crazy, and for the
suggestion. I don't think, though, that we'd win a lot of friends with
an installation program that monkeyed around, unannounced, with QCPFMSG.
Besides which, the current message uses nearly 80 characters (but could
probably be shortened).

Now on the other hand, if we maybe included a *MSGF of our own in the
initial "squirt" that sends our RTNMODSER program, . . . by George, I
think you're onto something!

Which is good, because I just now realized that my previous "best idea"
of filling QTEMP with a bunch of files whose names carried the required
information not only didn't get me out of heavy modification to
RTNMODSER, or of going into at least one class of the installer, and
rewriting at least one method therein; it also didn't even get me out of
opening a "download" data channel with the customer machine (which, I'm
thinking, would require methods we purposely left out of the
web-installer's FTP client).

In fact, I'm now seriously thinking of going down to the office this
afternoon, cranking up the appropriate development box, and trying it.

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