Re: Calling commands from an RPG ILE program

On 03/25/99 01:30:20 PM Rob Berendt  wrote:

>I've tried using QCMDEXC to execute a command.  Do it all the time - no 
>problem. 
>However, SNDPGMMSG is unacceptable.  I do a DSPCMD and see no logical 
reason. 
>I 
>supposed if I stretch I would determine that using QCMDEXC doesn't count 
as 
>*IPGM 
>or *BPGM but instead counts as *INTERACT or *BATCH.  So I guess I'll have 
to 
>write 
>a CL program to execute SNDPGMMSG, or use an alternative to SNDPGMMSG.

I think that SNDPGMMSG is not allowed because it allows a return variable 
(KEYVAR)   I used to use either SNDMSG or SNDBRKMSG.  I have started using 
the QMHSNDPM API with RPG IV.  Here's a snippet from a program that 
re-sends the job log messages to the caller:

D* Error return code 
D ErrStruc        DS                  INZ 
D  ErrSSize               1      4B 0 INZ(%len(ErrStruc)) 
D  ErrSUse                5      8B 0 
D  ErrSMsgID              9     15 
D  ErrSResrv             16     16 
D  ErrSData              17    272 

D SMsgLen         S              8B 0 
D SCallStk#       S              8B 0 

C* Send the message to the caller 
C                   Movel(P)  JoblMsgID     SMsgID 
C                   Movel     JoblMsgFil    SMsgFile 
C                   Move      JoblMsgLib    SMsgFile 
C                   Eval      SMsgLen=%len(%trim(MessageTxt)) 
C                   Movel(P)  '*DIAG'       SMsgType 
C                   Movel(P)  PPgmName      SCallStkE 
C                   Z-Add     0             SCallStk# 
 
C                   Call      'QMHSNDPM' 
C                   Parm                    SMsgID            7 
C                   Parm                    SMsgFile         20 
C                   Parm                    MessageTxt     4096 
C                   Parm                    SMsgLen 
C                   Parm                    SMsgType         10 
C                   Parm                    SCallStkE        10 
C                   Parm                    SCallStk# 
C                   Parm                    SMsgKey           4 
C                   Parm                    ErrStruc 

Buck Calabro
Billing Concepts Inc (formerly CommSoft), Albany, NY
mailto:mcalabro@commsoft.net
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