Re: QRY400 Status Message Technique

CPYF may be pretty efficient. However some of IBM commands are not - like
CPYFRMIMPF. We, and others, have determined that you can write your own
in RPGLE and not only will it be faster but
1 - You'll get around those pesky code page issues that IBM got picky on
with V5R3 and beyond.
2 - You'll get a better granularity of control. Meaning if you are
copying into your item master from an excel generated csv file and the
item number is too big for your file you can report exactly what the item
number is, etc. Instead of the generic message from CPYFRMIMPF.
3 - If you want to, you can add your own status messages. Like, record x
of y processed.

Failing that, I don't think submitting a job off and checking a job log is
going to buy you anything. Submitting a job off and RTVMBRD of the number
of records in the TO file may help (providing you're doing a replace and
not an add). You could even compare that with the records in the FROM
file and create your own sliding bar. Gee, I bet that would be fun to put
into a message file for display in the status line.
USR0001-
Record &1 of &2 of file &3 copied. 0%xxxxxxxooo100%
where xxxxxxxooo might be &4.

Have fun!

Rob Berendt