You're missing the point; the standard message panels pick up both, and don't flip you out of full screen mode. There may be use cases for say in ISPF dialogs, but this isn't one of them.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Jon Perryman <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2025 7:40 PM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Need Help using LMCOPY in a Rexx program External Message: Use Caution On Wed, 17 Dec 2025 22:09:07 +0000, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: >The correct method is tp display the short and long messages when there is an >error return code. Incorrect, the long message (ZERRLM) is the only message needed unless using the ISPF SETMSG which requires all the error variables (ZERRLM, ZERRSM, ZERRMSG, ...). The short message (ZERRSM) is designed to be displayed in the upper right of the ISPF screen. In general, the short message is a very short summary without details of the long message. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
