Rexx and ISPF panels

[SYSMQ]

Is it possible to setup a area in an ispf panel that I can access as a index type field and then write to that field using a rexx program.

Example:

I want an area of 16 lines for errors and want to be able to address that area one line at a time, so as I edit my input (input area is on the same panel as the error lines)and find an error I can increment and index in the rexx program and have the error appear on the next line. Or if anyone has a better way of doing this I'm open for suggestions.

 

[rexxhead]

You want error-msg-1 to scroll off when you issue error-msg-17, don't you? You can have a scrollable area within a panel (see AREA(SCRL) in the Developer's Guide) but you're going to do a lot of bit-twiddling to get this to happen. You can't actually 'index' into it, either; you couldn't, for instance, write line 12 before writing line 10.

Frank Clarke
Tampa Area REXX Programmers' Alliance
REXX Language Assn Listmaster

 

[stevexff]

Any possibility of writing the errors to a memory-only ISPF table and then using TBLDISPL to manage it? It would be less flexible, but easier to manage.

 

[KiwiREXXDude]

I have done things like that, and recommend calling it as a protected subroutine.