Reader Feedback and Insights: A Timely OPNQRYF Tip

October 4, 2002 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Hey, Ted:

Your tip regarding OPNQRYF is real beauty . You won’t believe this, but I had to solve a similar problem on the same day that your tip arrived.

Thanks,

— Shafiq

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Find the Cursor Position in a CL Program

October 4, 2002 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Dear Readers:

In the September 27 issue of Midrange Guru, my friend Holley Davis shared one method for returning the cursor location to a CL program. In this issue he shares a second method.

— Howard

There are two ways to tell where the cursor is located in a CL program. Both of them require you to add the RTNCSRLOC keyword to your display file as shown in the example below.

The RTNCSRLOC has two formats. You can use either one or both as needed. One format uses three variables to relay information from the display file to

David’s Choice for Java Error Logging

October 4, 2002 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Hey, David:

Thanks for all the tips you have given us. You have saved us countless hours of frustration. In return, here is a tip for you.

Where I work, we were trying to decide how to log errors and other diagnostic messages from our Java applications.

With all the choices (i.e., LogKit, Log4J, JDK14), we were not sure what was best.

We knew we needed something, but did not want to lock ourselves into a logging framework that would not meet our needs.

That was when we found that the Jakarta-Apache project (http://jakarta.apache.org) had a project that