Re: Message Files

["Simon Coulter" <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hello Brian,

You wrote:
>I could have been a little clearer: I was looking for a method of directly
>accessing a file of type *MSGF directly from within a COBOL program without
>having to make a call to an external program. The goal is to capture the
>message text within the program 

A *MSGF object isn't a file.  It is an index and COBOL has no direct way of 
manipulating 
it.  I suppose you could investigate the MI built-ins for index management that 
C 
provides and call them directly from COBOL but that seems an awkward way of 
doing it.  I 
think you are back to my original suggestion of the QMHRTVM API.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.

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