Re: 5250 programming: F3, F12 and CALLed programs

Hello Jon,

Am 10.08.2025 um 23:50 schrieb Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

There are so many ways to skin this cat.

That's why I asked. :-)

Personally, I've never used messages as a standard solution for this. tend to use messages as an "Oh sh*t something has gone wrong and I need to get outa of here" situation. I've also used CEETREK from time to time, where it was simpler.

It depends, of course, on the application structure. In some cases, I have seen people set a data area to indicate that F03 was requested. It is then a simple matter of following any call to a program that can receive F03 to test that data area, set the indicator associated with F03 in the program in question and ...

I see. I try to avoid external objects unless absolutely necessary, but forgot to mention this in my initial request.

:wq! PoC