RE: Custom MONTITOR handling

[Buck Calabro <Buck.Calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Doc wrote:

>Is it possible to "throw" custom messages from a subprocedure?
>
>That is, I have a program called ShowCust.  It has a bit of 
>code which looks
>like this:
>
>/Free
>  openBalance = getOpenBalance( myCustNo );
>  monitor:
>    on-error ????;
>      // handle customer not found
>    on-error;
>      // handle other errors
>  end-mon;
>/End-Free
>
>getOpenBalance() is another procedure that accesses a file via SQL, and
>calculates the current open balance.  I'd like it if it could throw an
>exception message if the customer isn't found, the customer 
>number is invalid,
>etc.

You can absolutely do this via the send program message API.
The following snippet is from Scott Klement's socket tutorial:

D SndPgmMsg       PR                  ExtPgm('QMHSNDPM') 
D   MessageID                    7A   Const              
D   QualMsgF                    20A   Const              
D   MsgData                    256A   Const              
D   MsgDtaLen                   10I 0 Const              
D   MsgType                     10A   Const              
D   CallStkEnt                  10A   Const              
D   CallStkCnt                  10I 0 Const              
D   MessageKey                   4A                      
D   ErrorCode                32766A   options(*varsize)  

You need to keep track of how deep in the stack the sender is, compared to
the receiver.
  --buck