RE: Get name of current procdeure

Jeffery,
Why not in your service program's procedure, perform a "find my caller"
routine and avoid passing in the name of the procedure altogether?
You can use snd/rcv message to do that.


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-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Jeffrey Young
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 7:55 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: Get name of current procdeure 

Scott,
I have a service program that is processing various types of data input and
returning a formatted string.
If the procedure being called encounters an error, I send back a return code
to the caller.
I am enhancing that to send a message to QHIST and the users job log.
One of the parms I am passing to my generic logging routine is the name of
the procedure the error occured in.
Currently, I am hard coding it, but would like to be able to have a variable
that I can pass instead.  This way, if I clone one of the procedures, I do
not have to remember to change the name in the error handling code.
 
Thanks,


Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In a Sub-procdeure, is there any way to get the name of the procedure 
> being executed?

The subprocedure name is in the callstack. You can use an API to get 
retrieve the call stack entries, or you can send a message to yourself and 
see who it came from :)

Neither of these are ideal or perform particularly well.

What are you trying to accomplish? Maybe I'd have some better suggestions 
if I knew the business problem you were trying to solve...