Re: CL issue with completion messages

[James Lampert <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Scott Klement wrote:
> When you say "from a CL program, I don't" does that mean that your CL 
> program is trying to receive the completion message, but is not finding one?
>
> Or does it mean that it doesn't print on the screen?

> In the latter case, it's important to understand the way messages work 
> on i5/OS.  Each call stack level has it's own message queue.  Typically, 
> completion messges are sent one level up the call stack.  So, if the 
> command line invokes RSTOBJ, the completion message is sent to the 
> command line itself (which will display it on the screen for the user's 
> benefit).   If the RSTOBJ command is run from your program, the 
> completion message would be sent to your program -- which would ignore 
> it unless you've written code to retrieve it and do something with it.
>
> So in this situation, if you want the message to be displayed on the 
> command line after your CL program exits, you'll need to retreive the 
> message sent by RSTOBJ (via the RCVMSG command) and re-send it up to 
> your CL program's caller (which would, presumably, be the command line).

It's the latter. Anybody got an example?