Re: checking qshell's exit status codes in CLP

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dan

Glad to hear it.

Have you looked in the CL Programming manual? It has a chapter on message
handling.

Basically, if I don't know how many or what type of message I'm going to
get, I use a loop with a test like

LOOPENTRY:
RCVMSG . . .
IF (&MSGID *EQ '       ') (GOTO LOOPEXIT)
ELSE DO
..
..
..
ENDDO
GOTO LOOPENTRY
LOOPEXIT:

At 10:15 AM 11/11/02 -0800, you wrote:
> 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