Re: checking qshell's exit status codes in CLP

Thanks, Vern, I found it!

BTW, RTVMSG in the original post should have been RCVMSG, obviously,
given the context of the question.

I'm trying to get a feel for how RCVMSG works.  Can I assume that, to
get to the QSH0005 message, all I need to do is a single "RCVMSG
MSGTYPE(*COMP) MSGDTA(&EXITSTSCHR)"?  I thought I've seen code before
that shows RCVMSG used in a loop to weed through several messages to
get to the one you're looking for, but a search turned up no good
explanation for how this works.  Anybody have a good link and/or a
short explanation to post?

TIA, Dan


--- Dan <dbcemid@yahoo.com> wrote:
> How does one go about checking the exit status code of a qsh command
> in
> CL?  I see the QSH0005 completion message shows the exit status, but
> don't know which message file it comes from (so I can see where to
> check in the MSGDTA).  (How does one determine the message file of a
> given message description???)
>
> If someone has example code to do this, could you post?
>
> If not, I presume I'll have to loop to RTVMSG until I get a QSH0005
> and
> check the MSGDTA?
>
> Or is there some other way to check this?
>
> TIA, Dan

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