Comments on: How to Retrieve Message File

By: tomliotta

tomliotta — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 02:28:38 +0000

…now i want to search text…

Bruce Vining’s articles in the above comment are your best direction right now. I have my own functions for this, but explanations of the code would be lengthy (and the code is lengthy enough). Since Bruce has already written excellent articles, I can’t think of a better place to look.

Tom

By: bvining

bvining — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 23:08:03 +0000

You might be interested in a series of articles I wrote about a year ago for MC Press. The last one, found here provides a search function across the message text of retrieved messages. Earlier articles (linked to by the article referenced above) demonstrate retrieving messages, changing messages, etc. Bruce Vining

By: 9783444184

9783444184 — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 06:29:37 +0000

Hi Tom,
I have completed some part of my program in which i fetched msgfile data to physical file through qmhrtvm now i want to search text in my physical file column in that column contained msg description.

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[...] 2. TomLiotta, CharlieBrowne and Philpl1jb are trying to solve 9783444184’s problem of retrieving a list of message files in a subfile. [...]

By: 9783444184

9783444184 — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 06:24:58 +0000

hi All,
Please guide me qmhrtvm in api how to code please give me one sample code

By: 9783444184

9783444184 — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 07:07:38 +0000

hi thanks tom,
Do you have any sample example for because i am new in API

By: tomliotta

tomliotta — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 04:51:47 +0000

...actually i want to search a message in message file which is exist in message file or not. That becomes much more complicated. If you have a message file that's small, the easiest thing to do is run this command:

DSPMSGD RANGE(*ALL) MSGF() DETAIL(*BASIC) OUTPUT(*PRINT)

Then you can search through the spooled output. If the message file is too large, you'll need to call a couple APIs to retrieve the attributes of each message description and to scan the text. Message descriptions can be retrieved with the Retrieve Message (QMHRTVM) API. Scanning the retrieved text for words or phrases would be done in various ways depending how you do your programming. Tom

By: 9783444184

9783444184 — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 03:45:46 +0000

Hi Sorry to all,
i m new in as400 actually i want to search a message in message file which is exist in message file or not.because some time we don’t remember message id then we add new message in message file that the problem.

if you have any idea about this please suggest me

By: tomliotta

tomliotta — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 04:21:12 +0000

I probably would use the List Objects (QUSLOBJ) API to build the list, but DSPOBJD to an *OUTFILE should work fine. It can easily be tested standing alone outside of any program. Tom

By: philpl1jb

philpl1jb — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:36:55 +0000

Well I suppose you can get a list by using DSPOBJD to an outfile.
And I’m sure Tom will have a nifty API which can also get your list.
But first, as Charlie Browne said, look at the WRKMSGF command.
Phil