Re: MI Programming

Oh, thats fine, don't worry a bit about it.  Actually, I was being a bit
facetious - I actually wrote the data queue programs way back on CPF.  I
didn't actually go to the trouble to try to look it up for V2R3.

Know of any APIs for dumping the symbol table of an OPM program?

Regards,
Rich

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Rich Duzenbury
http://rich.dyn.ml.org
http://vpsolutions.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: System Support Products, Inc. <sspi@ix.netcom.com>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Saturday, March 21, 1998 12:59 PM
Subject: Re: MI Programming


>Rich,
>
>   Sorry to disagree, but the QMHRDQM API most certainly exists on V2R3
>machines.  Perhaps you overlooked it because it is documented in the CL
>Programmer's Guide, which is where most of the data queue APIs were
>documented back then.
>
>   - Lou Forlini
>     Software Engineer
>     System Support Products, Inc.
>
>
>At 11:48 AM 3/20/98 -0600, "Rich Duzenbury" <rduz@aros.net> wrote:
>>HAHAHA!  I'm glad there is an API for this task now, but, I can't seem to
>>find it on my V2R3 machine!
>>
>>
>>Regards,
>>Rich
>>
>>============================================
>>Rich Duzenbury
>>http://rich.dyn.ml.org
>>http://vpsolutions.com
>>============================================
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: bvining@VNET.IBM.COM <bvining@VNET.IBM.COM>
>>To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
>>Date: Friday, March 20, 1998 11:03 AM
>>Subject: MI Programming
>>
>>
>>>Rich,
>>>
>>>Though I realize your view example was just that, an example, I can't
>>>resist the opportunity to plug the Retrieve Data Queue Message (QMHRDQM)
>>>API which provides a non-destructive read of one or more messages from
>>>a data queue.
>>>
>>>I do agree with you that MI is still a viable and effective mechanism
>>>for solving some of the problems developers run into.  Prior to V4R2
>>>for instance, MI was the only way to access system mutex support.
>>>
>>>Bruce Vining
>>>
>>>>
>>>>...
>>>>In general, I use MI only when a job cannot be done in RPG or CL at all,
>>or
>>>>sometimes cleanly.  As an example, some time ago I needed to view the
>>>>contents of a data queue, and no mechanism was available.  Certainly I
>>could
>>>>have pulled each entry off the queue, and then re-inserted it, but that
>>>>caused sequencing problems.  I could have also dumped the queue object,
>>and
>>>>tried to interpret the spooled file.  I considered these methods messy
>>>>solutions at best.  A clean solution, IMO, was an MI program written
>>around
>>>>MATQMSG.
>>>>
>>>>So, I believe MI is still a viable and effective mechanism for solving
>>>>problems, thus my desire to be proficient.
>>>>
>>>>Regards,
>>>>Rich
>
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