Tony, That's a great idea inline could be done too, right ? Everything including parms and substitution code right in the same program, just an idea
Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD > On Mar 13, 2014, at 1:58 PM, Tony Harminc <t...@harminc.net> wrote: > > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
