Re: QMHSNDPM in serviceprogram

Hi Scott,

Yes, I used something like that as well. But instead of counting the call stack entries I had the caller pass its name (from the PSDS) as a parameter, so the call to QMHSNDPM can use *PGMNAME with the call stack entry qualification parameter.

Joep Beckeringh



Op 15 okt. 2014, om 19:57 heeft Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> het volgende geschreven:

Hi there Joep,

Yes, that has always been a dilemna for me as well. Unfortunately, there's no perfect solution. In some applications using *PGMBDY 1 works nicely -- because I want to send to whomever called my service program.

But, for the other circumstance where I have a "send error" utility called from a program, and I want to send to that program's caller, there's no easy solution. The best I've come up with is to accept a parameter with the number of call stack levels. So the "send error" procedure accepts this parameter, and uses call stack '*' and call stack count is the parameter. That way, my program can specify 2, 3, 4... whatever it needs to go to the level that program desires.

Of course, that's clumsy because I have to count the call stack levels, etc, but it's the best I've found.

*CTLBDY could work nicely if you always use ACTGRP(*NEW) (or in some other way put every program in a diff activation group) -- but there are many circumstances where this isn't practical, either.

-SK