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Hello,

I am having trouble showing a message on line 24 of an interactive display that persists after an RPG program ends.

I was able to get this to work with SNDPGMMSG in a CL program.
However, if I call this CL program from within an RPG program, the message goes away when the RPG program ends.

The closest I can get is to get a message to show on a separate screen with "Display Program Messages."

I was able to do this in two ways:

1. Calling a CL program that does a SNDPGMMSG like this:
2. Using SND-MSG within the RPG program itself:


Is there any way to get the message to show on line 24, the same way it works with a CL program?

Please let me know if there is any more information I should provide about the scenario I am describing.

Thanks!

*COMP means "completion message" -- i.e. it is what shows when a program completes.

Since you have another program that is ending after the CL, it replaces it because now that program is completing. (Assuming I understand your scenario, anyway.)

You say you are able to see it if you do it as an *INFO message in a separate Display Program Messages screen -- that makes perfect sense since sending a program message to *EXT shows on that screen.

I guess you could retrieve the completion message from the CL program and re-send it as a completion message from the RPG program... it seems a little strange, but... I guess I wonder why you want to do this?

At any rate, the RPG program can do it like this (if you're up-to-date on PTFs):
Support for SND-MSG to send *COMP messages was added (via PTF) in Spring 2024.

Thank you, that worked.

> I wonder why you want to do this?

Not for any really good reason. It was just driving me crazy because I knew it was possible somehow but I couldn't quite figure it out.

Thanks again