Re: Hint for finding a message ID in QCPFMSG

Hello Vern,

Am 09.09.2021 um 23:28 schrieb Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Barbara's suggestion might be the best - CPF9898, well, when everyone uses that, it is impossible, easily, to know which of them matters.

Nope, this is bad habit. Not only I need to deal with strings in the tight space of positional RPG IV on my 150, but it's also a localization hell. I have my experiences from the 1980's through 1990's Macintosh platforms, where code and UI elements are completely separated.

I'm a native German speaker. While I do all comments in programs in English, because it looks more professional, helps avoiding umlauts and other special chars, and enables the code to be read by almost anyone on earth… I prefer the application itself to talk to me in my native language. But I wish to release my applications in German and English, once I made up my mind about the best way to include both languages with the source code. I have found some IBM documents on that matter. :-)

1. Get iSphere and use its message file search tool in RDi - wonderful tool!

A bit much for just searching messages.

2. DSPMSGD QCPFMSG for all messages and output to *PRINT - I think there is a "level" parameter - you might not need second level. Then open the SPLF and search away.

I already did that. Still, the amount is overwhelming.

To answer your first question, there ARE groupings - I don't think any are publicly documented - if you take that SPLF, you can roll through it and see some of them, I believe.

I did but it's not very intuitive to see the individual groups. But thanks for the hint about "not public".

Roll your own!!

I guess this might really be the way to go.

:wq! PoC