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  3. September 2006

Re: Formatting non-program messages

Using externally defined messages in a message file is more about communications and ease of program maintenance than it is about re-use of message IDs. There are many advantages:
1) It makes it easier to monitor for different errors. (I hate it when commands and programs send CPF9898 escape messages.) 2) When retrieving messages it makes it easier to figure what's going on without having to programatically parse the message text. 3) To find which part of a program sent an error it's easier to searching for a unique message IDs in source is much easier than searching for text strings or for the dreaded CPF9898 message ID. 5) The text of the messages are stored externally, like file record formats, which makes life easier all around, so if you want to change the text of a message you can do so without re-compiling the program (or programs). 

There are probably many more that I can't think of right now.

[Can you tell that I'm a zealous message handling advocate?  ;-)  ]
IMHO all messages whether used once or many times should be defined in a message file. 

AGlauser@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Peter Levy wrote:
The solution is to not use impromptu messages by creating a message file, adding a message ID to it for you message with the formatting you want, and sending that in the QMHSNDM API call instead of the impromptu message.
I was afraid of that .... it always seems a bit strange to me to define a message ID for something specific to one program. I will give this a try though. 

Thanks for the help,
Adam


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