Re: QHST PF Layout!

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stefan

This information is in 2 places - the CL Programming Guide in the 
section on processing messages, and in the Work Management manual. In 
CL Programming I see it in Chapter 8. Working with Messages, in a 
section on Message Logging. In Work Management I see it in Chapter 5. 
Jobs, in a section called QHST History Log.

The QHST files are named using QHST followed by the 5-digit Julian 
date and finally a sequence character (A-Z and 0-9). Unfortunately, 
this cannot be relied on for getting the correct order of messages, 
as the Julian date needs to be different when you have more than 36 
logs in a given day. The safest way to get the correct order is to 
use the text description, which has the date/time range for the 
messages in the file. There is no way to sort on those in PDM or 
anything, so I usually put the object info into a user space and then 
use something like qsort to sort the user space entries based on the 
text description. You need to use pointers to do this easily but it 
is simple once you've done it once. There is a Redbook called 
something like Who Knew You Could Do That With RPG? with examples of 
just this use of qsort.

Also, QHST messages get wrapped over multiple records, with sequence 
numbers. You could maybe have views defined for each kind of row, to 
help in working with them - sort of like the older way of defining 
what "record" you are on with I-specs.

HTH
Vern

At 06:53 AM 6/10/2006, you wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I need to analyze a large # of QHST entries so I'm looking at the
> QHSTxxxxxx-files.
> But I can't find any information about the layout of those files - so does
> anyone know?
> I would like to not use the DSPLOG *print.....
>
> Regards
>
> Stefan Tageson
> Informatikk Sverige AB
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