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Not supported for the current status
Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM i
Categories Languages - RPG
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 23, 2025

RELATED IDEAS

Merged idea
This idea has been merged into another idea. To comment or vote on this idea, please visit IBMI-I-3974 New op-code RCV-MSG or enhancement of ON-EXCP/ON-EXIT.

Pendant to SND-MSG to retrieve the error message text Merged

Being mainly a C# developer, it seams for me completely absurd that in RPG when you send an escape message with the SND-MSG function,  you don't have a built in function to retrieve the error message text!

Instead of having each developer/company to write it's own code based on QMHRCVPM, why don't IBM provide a kind of RCV-MSG function?

You would then have a nice clean code like this:

monitor;
  SND-MSG *ESCAPE %MSG('ABC1234' : 'MY_MESSAGE_TEST') %TARGET(*SELF);
on-excp 'ABC1234';
  errorMessage = RCV-MSG [With wathever necessary option to make it work!];
 // => errorMessage = MY_MESSAGE_TEST  
endmon;

 

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
    Feb 27, 2026
    Your request is a duplicate of IBM Idea IBMI-I-3974. That Idea aligns with the future strategy of our product and we believe it may have future value, so it has been added it to an internal list for us to keep in mind for the future.
    https://ibm-power-systems.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/IBMI-I-3974.

    - IBM Power Systems Development
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  • Guest
    Dec 11, 2025

    I already submitted such an idea some time ago:

    https://ibm-power-systems.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/IBMI-I-3974

    Sadly it was rejected back then.

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  • Guest
    Nov 21, 2025

    To make this work simply, I would suggest something like a %MSGKEY parameter on SND-MSG that returns the message key assigned to the sent message. Then a %RCVMSG( msgkey : [options]); built-in function that allows developers to retrieve the messages based on the message key (regardless of whether it was sent by snd-msg). The [options] parameter on %RCVMSG would be stuff like *MSGTEXT, *SECLVL, *SENDER, *TOPGMQ, etc. all the needed options.
    Now that would be useful!

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