Re: Question on sending status messages to a RPG program

[Brian Parkins <goodprophet.bp@xxxxxxxxx>]

Just a suggestion. How about a pop-up window with this particular 
message, rather than using the message subfile?

You could go the whole hog and call a separate program (procedure?) to 
display this pop-up window - more flexibility?

Brian.

On 13/05/2021 17:30, dfreinkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I have not done this before and so it trial and error to get this to work.
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> Situation:
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> At night, a user is updating shipments. There is a record lock. It causes
> the program to crash. I have added code so that is does not crash.
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> Problem:
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> Whilst still in the program, I need to send a message to the program so that
> a message will appear on the screen showing who has the record locked.
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> Done so far:
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> *	Changed the WAITRCD(3).
> *	SNDPGMSG to the program queue with status(*STATUS).
> *	The message is not displayed until the next EXFMT.
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> What I want to do:
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> *	Have the message display in the message subfile immediately, before
> the EXFMT.
> *	Whilst the lock is only 3 seconds, the delays are too long and so
> the user needs to see it immediately.
> *	When this happens at midnight, I get a call to fix the problem. Now
> I will not get the call, but because the message is not shown immediately,
> the users will simply cancel the program clicking on the red X and trying to
> start again. That will make it more of a mess to fix.
> *	I do, do a EXFMT again but the message is not always displayed.
> *	The SNDPGMMSG could be called from a program that is called by the
> program doing the EXFMT.
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> Any suggestions?
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> Thanks
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> Darryl Freinkel
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> A4G
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