RE: Sending Status message with QMHSNDPM blanks whole screen

I am calling the QMHSNDPM API via a prototyped subprocedure in a

service

program.  I use the message subfile for normal error messages, but

did

not want to be manually executing a format with the message subfile

just

to see the status.

I think you are making it too complex. Just put your messages into the
message subfile. The format gets executed no matter what or should be
and costs next to nothing. The nice thing about Message Subfiles is that
you can write the message anywhere and when you write the format, they
get loaded. Once of the nicest things about green screens. 

C# has a nice feature where you put out errors and it turns on a red *
next the item that has a problem. If you run your mouse over the *, you
shows you all the error messages attached to that error. That is the
only thing I have seen that comes close to the subfile message.