Know what's running -- Part 2

Know what's running -- Part 2

Joe Koepnick, search400.com member

Sorry for the confusion about DSPPGMMSG. It turns out that this was a command added by a conversion utility I had purchased called Target 400. This was a utility that converted OCL to CL and other System 36 stuff to OS/400. I had not realized that it was not part of OS/400.

In checking, I find that I do not have the source code for DSPPGMMSG. However, if you replace it with SNDUSRMSG the CL program MPR will run, just not as nicely as with the DSPPGMMSG command. The corrected code is below, and I'm sure if you play with it a bit you will find an even better way to handle the prompting for parameters.

I have contacted the software company that created Target 400, and if it is willing to release the source code for DSPPGMMSG I will make it available it to you later. 

  5769PW1 V4R4M0  990521                  SEU SOURCE LISTING 
01/08/01 19:19:32 
  SOURCE FILE . . . . . . .  DJKLIB/QCLSRC 
  MEMBER  . . . . . . . . .  MPR 
  SEQNBR*...+... 1 ...+... 2 ...+... 3 ...+... 4 ...+... 5 ...+... 6 ... 
+... 7 ...+... 8 
    100              PGM 
    200 
    300              DCL        VAR(&MENU)    TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(10) 
    400              DCL        VAR(&ITEM)    TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(10) 
    500              DCL        VAR(&LIB)    TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(10) 
    600              DCL        VAR(&PROG)    TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(10) 
    700              DCL        VAR(&OPTION)  TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(50) 
    800              DCL        VAR(&X)       TYPE(*DEC)

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 LEN(1 0) 
    900 
   1100              MONMSG     MSGID(CPF0000) EXEC(GOTO CMDLBL(FAIL)) 
   1300              IF         COND(&MENU *EQ ' ') THEN(DO) 
   1400              SNDUSRMSG  MSG(' ENTER THE MENU NAME') + 
   1500                           MSGTYPE(*INQ) MSGRPY(&MENU) 
   1600              ENDDO 
   1800              IF         COND(&ITEM *EQ ' ') THEN(DO) 
   1900              SNDUSRMSG  MSG(' ENTER THE ITEM#') MSGTYPE(*INQ) + 
   2000                         MSGRPY(&ITEM) 
   2100              ENDDO 
   2200              IF         COND(&LIB *EQ ' ')  THEN(DO) 
   2300              CHGVAR     VAR(&LIB) VALUE(JCSLIBR) 
   2400              ENDDO 
   2500              CHGDTAARA  DTAARA(*LDA (1 49)) VALUE('00000000' || + 
   2600                         &ITEM |< '987654321') 
   2700              CHGVAR     VAR(&X) VALUE(%SST(*LDA 17 1)) 
   2800              CHGDTAARA  DTAARA(*LDA (1 8)) VALUE(%SST(*LDA &X 8)) 
   2900              CHGVAR     VAR(&ITEM) VALUE(%SST(*LDA 5 4)) 
   3000 
   3100              RTVMSG     MSGID('USR' || &ITEM) MSGF(&LIB/&MENU) + 
   3200                         MSG(&OPTION) 
   3300 
   3400              SNDUSRMSG  MSG(&OPTION) MSGTYPE(*INFO) 
   3500              SNDUSRMSG  MSG('ENTER THE PROGRAM NAME') MSGTYPE(*INQ) 
+ 
   3600                         MSGRPY(&PROG) 
   3700 
   3800              STRSEU     SRCFILE(&LIB/QCLSRC) SRCMBR(&PROG) 
OPTION(5) 
   3900              GOTO       CMDLBL(END) 
   4000 FAIL:        DSPPGMMSG  MSG('FAILED') 
   4100 END:         ENDPGM 
                                  * * * *  E N D  O F  S O U R C E  * * * *

This was first published in January 2001

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