Posted: 8 years 11 months 29 days 13 hours 15 minutes ago
What did you try? Could you post the Java that you're using to try to get the messages? Could you post the CL that you're using to send the messages?
Posted: 8 years 11 months 29 days 26 minutes ago
Sure, and thanks for the response.
In java, I'm calling a CL:
AS400Message[] messagelist = new AS400Message[5];
pgm = new ProgramCall(sys, "/QSYS.LIB/" + mylibname
+ ".lib/" + "MYPGMNAME" + ".PGM", parmList);
if(pgm.run()==true){
messagelist = pgm.getMessageList();
return messagelist;
}
Which works - the CL that's called then calls an RPG pgm, and I can put a division by zero in the RPG and get back a fail message in messagelist.
So I try to get my own message returned in the CL, which obviously doesn't work:
CHGVAR VAR(&MSGTXT) VALUE('THIS IS A TEST')
SNDPGMMSG MSG(&MSGTXT) TOPGMQ(*EXT) MSGTYPE(*COMP)
Posted: 8 years 11 months 28 days 20 hours 9 minutes ago
Haven't run into this particular situation, but I think the TOPGMQ(*EXT) could be the problem. See http://techtipsjava.blogspot.com/2013/04/calling-as400-cl-commands-from-java.html. The sample SNGPDMMSG (near the bottom) doesn't specify a TOPGMQ(), so it's using the default of *PRV.
Posted: 8 years 11 months 28 days 17 hours 46 minutes ago
I think you want an escape message, so:
chgvar &msgtxt 'CCCNNNNEmulated failure'
SNDPGMMSG MSGID(CPF9999) MSGF(QCPFMSG) MSGDTA(&MSGTXT) +
MSGTYPE(*ESCAPE)
The bit about CCCNNNN is because AS400Message seems to expect an actual message ID as the first 7 characters. I didn't experiment very far though.