On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 1:18 PM, Phil Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Carmen Vitullo wrote: >>been a long time for me but don't you define the work area, and all the >>messaging is located there? > > I thought of that, but then why am I telling it what key to use for the > buffer? It's already there! And how do I know how long the messages are, > etc.? Does it fill the buffer with nulls? Blanks? Not saying this can't be > the answer, but as you can see, if it is, it raises more questions...!
Did you read then entire passage here: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.ichc600/racrout.htm [quote] ... When control returns from RACROUTE, the RACROUTE parameter-list field is mapped by SAFPMSAD in the ICHSAFP mapping macro. SAFPMSAD is nonzero if messages have been returned. This field contains the address of an area that consists of two fullwords followed by the message itself in write-to-operator (WTO) parameter-list format. The first word is the length of the area including the two-fullword header; the second word points to the next message area, if there is one, or contains zero if no more messages areas exist. [quote/] > > Thanks, > > ...phsiii > -- Veni, Vidi, VISA: I came, I saw, I did a little shopping. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
