Re: I need a way to retrieve messages from a message file and merge the MSGDTA values into it.

What makes this difficult is there are about 100 places needing different
substitution values and using the replace functions is a lot of work.

I am hoping to find a system api that can do the substitution and return
the complete message.

Doing it this way, I can add a call in a common subroutine in the program
to the api.

I am playing around with the QHRTVMSG api but do not fully understand all
the parameters at this time

Darryl

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 1:08 PM Kevin Bucknum <Kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

The send message api's like QMHSNDPM have places to put the replacement
variables. You could use that and pull the message back in. Or you can use
replace ins SQL, or %scanrpl in RPG.

On Wed, 2021-04-21 at 13:03 -0400, dfreinkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I have a requirement to modify a program that uses messages from a message

file to display errors. The program is old and was cloned from an

interactive program that displayed messages. It is now a batch program that

sends the messages to nowhere.





I need to retrieve the message description and merge in the replace values

for &1, &2... where the MSGDTA exists.





I would like to use the SQL function





Select Message_TEXT from QSYS2.MESSAGE_FILE_DATA but need to find a way to

replace the &1, &2... with the real values.





Any Ideas?





TIA,





Darryl Freinkel


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