Refresh your display
Here's a program to display your files automatically without the input of a user.
To refresh your display file automatically without the input of a user, do the following in your program.
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1. Put an INVITE keyword in your display file control record.
2. Either compile the display file with the WAITRCD parm set to the number of seconds you need or add an OVRDSPF FILE() WAITRCD(x) with the number of seconds you want to wait between refreshes.
3. In your RPG program:
Write Format Name
Read File Name
Status if 01331
exsr Reset SFL
exsr Load SFL
endif
In error_subr, check %STATUS for 01331; that's the timeout error and I'd redisplay (rewrite) the record format.
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