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It is always QCPFMSG in QSYS (well, almost always).

-Bob Cozzi
www.RPGxTools.com
If everything is under control, you are going too slow.
- Mario Andretti


-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of brian
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 6:30 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: RE: merging message data and description to get text

On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Bob Cozzi wrote:
> If the API returns the message data (the standard/original API Error DS
did
> not contain the msgdata) you can use the Retrieve Message API and do what
> you want. It's been a while since I've used the raw API, but with RPG
> xTools, the GetMsgText() procedure will do what you want.
> The API it uses is: QMHRTVM

That looks great, except QMHRTVM expects the qualfied message file as a
parameter. How do I determine the correct message file based on the
message ID?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of brian
> Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 5:33 PM
> To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: merging message data and description to get text
>
> If I use an API and find the standard API error data structure populated
> with some error message ID and data, I want to merge the message
> description ("Library &1 not found" or whatever) and the message data
> "SOMELIB   " (or whatever it may be) and get the message "Library SOMELIB
> not found" that I could display to the user.
>
> Is there an API I can send the message ID and data and get back the
> formatted text of the error message? It's easy to SEND that message, but
> can I just get the text?
>
> Thanks.
> brian.
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