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kingo · Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 8:30 am Post subject: Linking messages to panels

Hi,

I am trying to build a tool where I need to get tablesname and qualifier and get the database name and tablespacename which are required for other processing

When I enter a invalid qualifier or table name.
I want to set a message saying this is invalid.
Can anyone give some guidance on that.
Thanks in advance.

Regds,
Kingo
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expat · Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 9:31 am Post subject:

Here's the link to ISPF services

Chapters 6 & 7 have info on messages.

Will try and dig up some other info on messages that I might have in my archive files.

Although I usually set an area of two or three lines on the panel with variable names and set the variables to the required message text within the REXX execution and redisplay the panel with the messages now set.

example

Nic Clouston · Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 3:38 pm Post subject:

I presume you want to set the ISPF short and long messages in which case...

semigeezer · Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 5:50 pm Post subject:

Not sure why my post didn't go a few hrs ago, but ...

See the SetMSG service if you are doing the verify in your code.

See the VER statement and .MSG variable if you are doing it in panel logic
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kingo · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 6:15 am Post subject:

But how to set a similar kind of message for a table?
Should I set a message with the return code?
Please correct me if I am wrong

Regds,
Kingo
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Nic Clouston · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 3:19 pm Post subject:

It is irrelevant whether it is a table name, a dog's name, a cat's age or whatever that you are checking. Yo do not even need to check anything. Just set ZEDSMSG and ZEDLMSG and the ZEDSMSG will be displayed when the next panel displays and ZEDLMSG when you first hit PF1 after that.

E.g.

code to determine if table name is valid
If invalid set message variables
redisplay panel to get correct values
etc etc
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kingo · Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 2:27 am Post subject:

Hi Nic,expat,semigeezer

It was really helpful and I set a message based on a condition it worked.

Thanks Very Happy

Regds,
Kingo
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