Re: Reference for what various combinations of message type and message queue will do?

On 02/09/2009, at 4:03 AM, James H. H. Lampert wrote:

It seems to me that there ought to be some sort of reference for what
any given combination of message type and message queue (whether sent by
SNDPGMMSG or QMHSNDPM) will do: what combination of parameters you need
to put a transient message on the message line, what combination you
need to only put a message in the joblog, what's equivalent to an RPG
DSPLY statement, and so forth.

It seems to me that whenever I have to do something along this line, I
end up doing a lot of guessing, and a lot of calling for help.

Has anybody either found or written this sort of reference?

I suspect no-one's done it because it's trivial:

1) put a transient message on the message line

TOPGMQ(*EXT) MSGTYPE(*STATUS)

2) put a message in the joblog

TOPGMQ( *PRV or name of call stack entry )
MSGTYPE( pretty much anything but *STATUS and *NOTIFY )

3) equivalent to an RPG DSPLY statement

TOPGMQ(*EXT) MSGTYPE( pretty much anything but *STATUS )

Those are using SNDPGMMSG. Translating to QMHSNDPM is easy to:

TOPGMQ ==> Parameter 6 (plus 10 and 11 and 13 if necessary)

MSGTYPE ==> Parameter 5

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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