On 13 March 2014 11:08, Donald Russell <russell....@gmail.com> wrote: >> I've been using WTO ROUTCDE=11 to display various message in the job log >> of assembler language batch applications.... that's great/easy for fixed >> text messages. >> >> VM/CMS has the APPLMSG macro which makes it ridiculously simple to build >> in storage, or display messages with various types of substitutions... >> >> I would like to display a message like: >> >> Records read: xxxx Items found: yyyy Hit rate: zzz% >> >> Where the value for x,y and z come from registers or fields. >> >> Of course I can do it myself with CVD/EDMK etc, but this seems like such a >> common sort of thing, I hoping there's a macro to do that stuff for me. >> Even if the macro builds the message in storage, then I can use WTO >> ROUTCDE=11 pointing to the text result.
How about the C library sprintf function? If you use the Metal C version, it can probably be called from assembler in a non-LE environment. It does require a "stack" (R13 save area) of around 4KB, iirc. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
