Hi, If you can operate in a authorized program, I can give you the assembler code to find the CONSOLE address space, and via cross memory services you can get the outstanding replies, (all of them or just the subset you want), and respond to them if you wish or just read the information from them. Operating in this way allows you to get the reply-id and the text, and if you decide to respond to the messages you merely use MSGCRE or whatever you are fondest of to reply to the messages you want to reply to.
You can also extract that same code information from the FoodLion COMMANDS program I modified years ago on file 19 of the CBTTAPE (cbttape.org), the coding has not changed since I started writing assembler for performing that particular operation. It simple and the entire subset of code is under 20 or so lines. Some of the code in that program is a bit archaic now, but at the time it was (I thought) pretty cool, and a lot of it still works. This particular part definitely still works. Playing with this type of thing through REXX or getting the messages via some sort of scraping mechanism is not as efficient and can lead to you responding to messages that no longer exist. You can do that type of thing in an environment that is fairly underutilized, but if you want to do the process quickly, use assembler. Don't forget to perform the SETLOCKs (obtain and release) when you go cross memory, that's where a lot of people screw up. If you have problems understanding it, let me know and I'll help you through it. Brian ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
