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Variable line number SLNO(Y *VAR)

Hi All,

After all the years of programming I finally fond a reason to try the following with ther SLNO option in my DDS, but how to continue in RPGLE?

(every DDS record has (to try) 1 text and 1 Field (I/O) eg Text-1: _______)
I will try to get the next thing working:

Eval #SLN = 5
Write FMT01
Eval #SLN = #SLN + 1
Write FMT02
Eval #SLN = #SLN + 1
Write FMT03
Eval #SLN = #SLN + 1
Read WSTN

Result:

Text-1: _______
Text-2: ____0,00_
Text-3: _______________________

But on read only value of Text-3 is available (of course).
Is there anything I can do get this working?
(Subfile is no option)

Regards,

Murphey

daveslater

Hi Murph

Are you still working on this?

I might have a sort of solution

Dave

Theo Kouwenhoven

ASKER

Hi Dave,

I'm not surprised that it's you again, I solved it more or less (a not so nice workaround) but please let me know the solution you found

daveslater

Hi
I would use the
"QsnReadScr" & "QsnRtvDta" API's to read the input buffer.
This returns a 1920 byte field; calculate the position of the data in the string and sub string it out

Dave

daveslater

Hi
API example to get the screen

********************************************************
** Create input buffe
D CrtInpBuf PR extproc( 'QsnCrtInpBuf')
D Len 10I 0 Const
D Inc 10I 0 Const
D Max 10I 0 Const
D Buffer 10I 0
D Error 10I 0 Const
********************************************************
** delete buffer
D DltBuf PR extproc( 'QsnDltBuf')
D Buffer 10I 0
D Error 10I 0 Const
********************************************************
** Clear buffer
D ClrBuf PR extproc( 'QsnClrBuf')
D Buffer 10I 0 Const
D ErrorCode 10I 0 Const
********************************************************
** Read screen
ReadScreen PR extproc( 'QsnReadScr')
Length 10I 0
Inp 10I 0
CmdBuffer 10I 0 Const
Env 10I 0 Const
Error 10I 0 Const
********************************************************
** Read immediate - alll input fields
RtvDta PR extproc( 'QsnRtvDta')
Inp 10I 0
Ptr *
Error 10I 0 Const
********************************************************
Env S 10I 0
Inp S 10I 0
Length S 10I 0
Data S 1920A based(Ptr)
**
C Callp CrtInpBuf(1920 : 0 : 0 : Inp : 0 )
C Callp ClrBuf(Inp : 0 )
C Callp ReadScreen(Length : Inp : 0 : Env : 0 )
C Callp RtvDta(Inp : Ptr : 0 )
C Callp DltBuf(Inp : 0 )
C Eval *INLR = *on

Dave

Ps

There is a function tha reads input fields but I am not sure if it only reds the active screen

Theo Kouwenhoven

ASKER

Hi Dave,

I will lok to this, but probably not for end of December...

Thanks till now.

SuperCCA

If you want a greater level of control then I suggest you move to user defined data streams. It's a little tricky to get started but give absolute control of the display area. Let me know if you need more.

Theo Kouwenhoven

ASKER

Hi SuperCCA,

Yes I need more, that is (I hope) also the solusion to display fields with variable length!!

Let me know as much as possible.

SuperCCA

You can do whatever you like but equally you have to do all display handling. First off you will need a copy of the 54594 Remote Control Unit Functions Reference manual SC30-3533-04. I know it sounds unlikely but this where the 5250 data stream is documented. If you get moving on this then I will try and post some 'get you started' code later.

Cheers

Theo Kouwenhoven

ASKER

I found the following :
----------------------------------------------------------
5494 Remote Control Unit
Functions Reference
Release 3.1
Document Number SC30-3533-04
Part Number 38H6893

This must be the one !!! If this is what I think it is.... I will put a new question for you with more points to earn.

SuperCCA

I'm not fussed about points - I was on the site by accident and thought I'd help. Where would like the code posted?

Theo Kouwenhoven

ASKER

I don't know how much code it is....
you can copy and paste it to this site,
but if it is to much to paste please send it to murphey2@hotmail.com

SuperCCA

You will need the following DDS (note that FORMAT01 will not be used
but creates the necessary buffer space). Let's call it DSP5250

A DSPSIZ(24 80 *DS3)
A R FORMAT01 KEEP
A DATA 32763 H
*
A R FORMATREC INVITE KEEP
A PRINT
A USRDFN

ILERPG specifications

FDSP5250 CF F32763 WORKSTN
F PASS(*NOIND)

D Hex S 1 DIM(255)
*
D DS
D @Q 1 4B 0
D @sHex 3 4
D DS
D @X 1 2 0
D @sX 1 2
*
D UsrDta DS
D @sPutLen 1 2B 0
D @sGetLen 3 4B 0
D @sFunction 5 5
*
D @pDS5250 DS
D Arr 1 32758 DIM(32758)
*
* Work Fields
*
D*@x S 2 0
*
* Internal Input Specifications
*
IDSP5250 NS
I 132758 @pDS5250
*
* Build Hex Values Array
*
C 1 Do 255 @Q
C Move @sHex Hex(@Q)
C Enddo
*
* Build Data Stream
*
C Eval @pDS5250 =
* Clear Display
C x'0440' +
* Write to display
C x'04112008' +
* Screen Title (SBA,Att,Data,Att)
C x'11012222' + 'Play with 5250' + x'20'
*
* 10 lines of text and varying length fields
*
C For @x = 5 to 14
C Eval @pDS5250 = %Trim(@pDS5250) +
* SBA,Row,Column
C x'11' + Hex(@x) + x'05' +
* Data
C x'20' + 'Text ' + @sX + x'20' +
* SBA,Row,Column
C x'11' + Hex(@x) + x'14' +
* Start of field
C x'1D40002400' + Hex(@x)
C Endfor
*
* Set control data
*
C ' ' Checkr @pDS5250 @sPutLen
C Eval @sGetLen = 300
C Eval @sFunction = x'73'
*
* Send to display
*
C Except DSPREC
C Read DSP5250
*
* End of program
*
C Eval *inlr = *on
*
* Internal Output specifications
*
ODSP5250 E DSPREC
O K9 'FORMATREC'
O USRDTA 5
O @pDS5250 32763

Enjoy!!!

(PS watch yourself if you introduce other 5250 orders, one mistake can crash your emulation session and under some circumstances no 5250 session will be usable until reboot.

Theo Kouwenhoven

ASKER

Hee SuperCCA,

This is really great, Can I do the same trick with Subfile programs????

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SuperCCA

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