Re: building text messages with substitutions

2014-03-14 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Donald Russell wrote: I don't want to write the whole thing in C, and use the occasional assembler macro, I have an assembler program and want to use sprintf to create a string of text with various substitutions in it. Shout if you want assembler sample to print out a register for example.

Re: building text messages with substitutions

2014-03-14 Thread Lloyd Fuller
From: Donald Russell russell@gmail.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Friday, March 14, 2014 1:51 AM Subject: Re: building text messages with substitutions I've been looking for doc on how to do this It seems I need to call __cinit to set up a C

Re: building text messages with substitutions

2014-03-14 Thread Scott Ford
Donald: Metal C has a lot of nice goodies, but there are some restrictions. Its more or less depends on what you are doing or wanting to do or accomplish.. Regards, Scott www.identityforge.com From: Donald Russell Sent: ‎Thursday‎, ‎March‎ ‎13‎, ‎2014 ‎2‎:‎53‎ ‎PM To: IBM Mainframe

Re: building text messages with substitutions

2014-03-14 Thread Tim Deller
I use a macro named FORMAT for this function. It works great. FORMAT ('SCANSMF: ',,),(TCNT,P,'ZZZ,ZZZ,ZZZ'), (' TYPE 80 RECORDS SCANNED.',,),TO=MSG,WKA=WKA WTO TEXT=MSG TCNT DCPL5'0' WKA DSD MSG

Re: building text messages with substitutions

2014-03-14 Thread Tony Harminc
On 14 March 2014 01:51, Donald Russell russell@gmail.com wrote: I've been looking for doc on how to do this It seems I need to call __cinit to set up a C environment, then I can call sprintf and finally __cterm to terminate the C environment I'm not sure, but the way I read it

Re: building text messages with substitutions

2014-03-13 Thread Donald Russell
Sorry, I forgot to add a subject line :-( On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 8:04 AM, Donald Russell russell@gmail.comwrote: zOS 1.2 (upgrading to 2.1 in the next few months) I've been using WTO ROUTCDE=11 to display various message in the job log of assembler language batch applications

Re: building text messages with substitutions

2014-03-13 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In cacdkjfq63o8j8dvw0+-bzftnhvuffom75rtbk_tbbk7wrua...@mail.gmail.com, on 03/13/2014 at 08:08 AM, Donald Russell russell@gmail.com said: I would like to display a message like: Records read: Items found: Hit rate: zzz% Where the value for x,y and z come from registers or

Re: building text messages with substitutions

2014-03-13 Thread Tony Harminc
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

Re: building text messages with substitutions

2014-03-13 Thread John McKown
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 12:58 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

Re: building text messages with substitutions

2014-03-13 Thread Scott Ford
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,

Re: building text messages with substitutions

2014-03-13 Thread Tony Harminc
On 13 March 2014 14:01, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com wrote: Wish I had thought of using the Metal C version of sprintf(). I actually ended up figuring out how to write a number of z/OS UNIX commands using LE enabled assembler so that I could use things such as sprintf() or

Re: building text messages with substitutions

2014-03-13 Thread Donald Russell
Holly Smokes! Metal C looks perfect THANKS! :-) I just need sprintf features Donald Russell On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net wrote: On 13 March 2014 14:01, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com wrote: Wish I had thought of using the Metal C version

Re: building text messages with substitutions

2014-03-13 Thread Tony Harminc
On 13 March 2014 14:53, Donald Russell russell@gmail.com wrote: Holly Smokes! Metal C looks perfect THANKS! :-) I just need sprintf features Please keep us posted with your results. I haven't actually tried it, but I've thought about it a few times - enough to look at the calling

Re: building text messages with substitutions

2014-03-13 Thread Mike La Martina
: building text messages with substitutions Holly Smokes! Metal C looks perfect THANKS! :-) I just need sprintf features Donald Russell On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net wrote: On 13 March 2014 14:01, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com wrote: Wish I

Re: building text messages with substitutions

2014-03-13 Thread Donald Russell
I've been looking for doc on how to do this It seems I need to call __cinit to set up a C environment, then I can call sprintf and finally __cterm to terminate the C environment Sounds simple enough but I can't find what the parameter list looks like for those calls... Do I actually