RE: ADDRPYLE for a message to a writer

The starting position you specify in the CMPDTA param is the starting position of the field you are
interested in in the message replacement data, not the message itself.

So Neil is correct.

The key thing to remember is that there are two parts to any message on the system i, the static text
and the variable replacement message data. While you see them combined when you do a DSPMSG or
something, the system segregates the replacement data behind the scenes.

If you look at the Receive Program Message (QMHRCVPM) API, in the output format RCVM0200, you can see
that the system returns both the complete message and the replacement data by itself.

HTH,

Charles Wilt
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Software Engineer
CINTAS Corporation - IT 92B
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-
bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Grizzly Malchow
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 10:07 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: ADDRPYLE for a message to a writer

Starting at the letter V in the word Verify, by my count, &3 starts in
position 29. The word printer starts in position 21.
As Pete suggested I copied the QDFTJOBD and I was going change the
usrprf QSPLJOB to use the new job description, but I received a message
stating
The system user profile cannot be changed.
At this point I think my best option is to modify the start up of the
writers to be ALIGN(*FILE) as Charles suggested.
Thanks to everyone for your help.
Griz

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Neil Palmer
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 6:27 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: ADDRPYLE for a message to a writer

Your message data start position of 29 in CMPDTA is wrong.

DSPMSGD CPA4002 shows:
Verify alignment on printer &3.

Field Data Type Length
&1 *CHAR 10
&2 *CHAR 10
&3 *CHAR 10
&4 *BIN 2
&5 *CHAR 10
&6 *CHAR 10

You can see that &3 starts in 21, not 29.

Also, if teh assumption here is that the forms are always aligned, why
auto reply with a 'G' and waste an extra form instead of with an 'I' ?

Neil Palmer, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada

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