Re: Adding Variable to a menu

[Paul Therrien <paultherrien@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The DDS Menu paradigm might not be your best bet, but you can use the
MSGID keyword and an output field on your display file to display the
value of a message in a message file. 

You can set the message text of the message to be the security code
value you want to display. 

I tested this and found that i needed to edit and create the display
file separately from the SDA create menu process because SDA was not
keeping the field that I was attempting to add. 

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Paul Therrien Andeco Software, LLC 

paultherrien@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 

225-229-2491 

On 2016-10-12 09:30, roper steve wrote:

> Hi my menus are generate in PDM using SDA with source members MNUSRC and
> MNUSRCQQ in OS V5R4M0
>
> I have been asked to show a Variable on the menu that changes each day, it is
> actually a security code
>
> the users need to validate a ticket issued by an automated console. I cannot get
> the variable to show on
>
> the menu, I have tried via a database file and a message file both do not work
> database does not show and message
>
> only shows message at compile time and does not update when message file
> changes, any advise would be greatly
>
> received.
>
> I can do it on a display screen such as a subfile screen or a data entry screen
> because I can chain to the file and retrieve
>
> the code but not on a menu screen