Re: Multilingual Screens

[Ravi <ravi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris,

Can you use a message subfile in your DSPF? Then you can use API
QMHSNDPM to send messages from your RPG. You will not have to declare a
message file in your DDS. Two of the parms required by the send message
API are the message file name & the library name. This will help you
control which message file is used at run time. 

Ravi

Chris.Chambers@v2music.com wrote:
> 
> I am constructing a system which needs the screens to be presented to each
> user in the langauage of their choice(eg English, German, French, Italian
> and Greek).
> 
> I am initially exploring this using message files via the ERRMSGID and
> MSGCON keywords in the DDS. But it seems one has to designate the exact
> message file at compilation and so compile the DDS once for each language
> used which is a pain and means one has to retain multiple libraries of
> screens.
> 
> Perhaps the COBOL programs could populate the texts on screen using a
> different msg file via OVRDBF at run time but what about the time overhead
> and the normal DDS ERRMSG processing would be lost.
> 
> Anyone got any experience in this area? Any ideas or tips ideas gratefully
> appreciated.
> 
> Kind Regards,
> 
> Chris
> 
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