RE: Sending status messages to program message queue using QMHSNDPM

["Jonathan Mason" <jonathan.mason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Wayne,

Thanks for that, I had tried using *STATUS messages and the *EXT message
queue but it hadn't worked.  In the end I hard coded the call to QMHSNDPM
directly within the PROGRESS procedure instead of calling the SNDPGMMSG
procedure and using *EXT worked.

I don't know why it didn't work using the extra level in the call stack, but
I'm happy it's working now.

Thanks again.

Jonathan

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces+jonathan.mason=astradyne-uk.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces+jonathan.mason=astradyne-uk.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Wayne McAlpine
Sent: 05 July 2007 17:50
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Sending status messages to program message queue using QMHSNDPM

You have to send a predefined message of type *STATUS to the *EXT 
message queue.  Message CPF9898 is reserved for this use.

Jonathan Mason wrote:
> I have an ILE program running that performs variable amounts of work over
a
> number of libraries and want to send progress messages to a program
message
> queue while the job is running.  
>
> The setup I have is:
>
>       PGM_A consists of two modules MOD_1 and MOD_2 and two service
> programs SRV_1 and SRV_2
>
>       MOD_1 has a display file defined which includes a message subfile
>
>       MOD_1 calls MOD_2 to do the work
>
>       MOD_2 calls sub-procedure PROGRESS which is found in SRV_1
>
>       Sub-procedure PROGRESS in turn calls the SNDPGMMSG sub-procedure
> which is in SRV_2
>
>       Sub-procedure SNDPGMMSG calls the QMHSNDPM system API
>
> I have tried various combinations of setting the call stack entry
parameter
> for the API to "*" and "*EXT" as well as passing in the program, object
and
> module, and the most success I have is passing in the appropriate values
for
> PGM_A and MOD_1.  However, the messages don't appear on the display until
> the process completes and the message subfile control is rewritten.
>
> Does anybody know if it is possible to have the status messages pop up on
> the display while the job is running and what I need to do to achieve it.
>
> Thanks
>
> Jonathan