RE: Newbie question

I like the display-the-report idea, but I'm supposed to show the WRKSPLF
screen with the "report done" message.

Ray Shahan

"Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans", John Lennon 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vern Hamberg [SMTP:vhamberg@centerfieldtechnology.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 3:44 PM
> To:   Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject:      Re: Newbie question
> 
> Ray, is the QRY interactive? What if you just displayed the report? It 
> seems that the report being displayed is an indication that the query is 
> done <g>. Use DSPSPLF FILE(QPQUPRFIL) SPLNBR(*LAST)
> 
> Watch out for performance hits with interactive queries. There's a way to 
> submit a job and know when it's done, not too difficult, but might be a
> big 
> hammer for a small nail. It involves a job notification exit point -- uses
> 
> a data queue, sends any ENDJOB activity in a specified subsystem to the 
> queue, you wait on it, check if it's the job you submitted, ignore if not,
> 
> display report if it is.
> 
> Let me know if you want more about the exit point.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Vern
> 
> At 10:29 AM 1/30/2003 -0600, you wrote:
> >Gentle listers,
> >
> >I have another lame newbie question:
> >
> >I was asked to create a CLP that runs a QRY report.  After the report,
> I'm
> >supposed to send a program message stating the report is done, and then
> show
> >the WRKSPLF screen, so the user can view the spool file online.
> >
> >I have everything working, but my message to the screen can't be seen
> >correctly.  If I send the message prior to calling WRKSPLF, the display
> >happens to fast, if I send the message after calling WRKSPLF, then the
> >message can't be seen on the WRKSPLF screen (it can be viewed after F3
> from
> >the WRKSPLF screen).
> >
> >Anyway, if you have some spare time, and there's an easy answer (not 80
> >lines of CLP), then I'd appreciate the help.   :-)
> >
> >Ray Shahan
> 
> 
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