I've never used the COMPARE command. (Never used MACRO_MSG, either.) What message were you expecting from COMPARE?
--- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* By 2005 or so, it will be clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's. -Paul Krugman, Nobel-prize-winning economist in 1998 */ -----Original Message----- From: ispf-l-l...@nd.edu [mailto:ispf-l-l...@nd.edu] On Behalf Of Robert Prins Sent: Monday, February 3, 2020 09:11 I've been using this for ages, and in case you've never heard of it: MACRO_MSG Set or Query the Macro Message switch The MACRO_MSG assignment statement sets or retrieves the value of the macro_msg switch, which controls whether macro processing delivers ISPF messages to the macro. Syntax >>--ISREDIT--(varname)-- = --MACRO_MSG---------------------------------->< +-ON--+ >>--ISREDIT--MACRO_MSG-- = --+-----+------------------------------------>< +-OFF-+ varname The name of a variable containing the setting of MACRO_MSG. ON ISPF messages generated by macro commands are formatted. OFF ISPF messages are not formatted. Description The MACRO_MSG assignment statement sets a switch for subsequent macro processing. When set ON, any message that is generated by a macro command is formatted and made available in variables in ZEDILMSG, ZEDISMSG, and ZEDMSGNO. This is a diagnostic switch and should only be used to extract messages as required. Macros that perform operations on many edit lines may experience a performance degradation if this switch is ON. Return codes 0 Normal completion 20 Severe error I now wanted to use it to get at the message set by the "COMPARE" command, as that just returns RC=0, no matter (differences or no differences) what, but in this case all three above mentioned variables come back as 8-character blank strings. Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug? Replies please to IBM-MAIN only (I cross-posted this also to ISPF-L) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
