XLATE Question

[Jerry Tilsley]

Ok, I do not usually use xlates (I prefer tcl), but I am trying to modify and existing xlate to write the MSH.10 field (unique message number) to the driver control to set the outbound filename.  I have copied the MSH.10 field to a temporary variable called @MSH10.

I have the following code so far, what value is in the xlateInVals?  Is that what is specified in the xlate source for this action (I’m guessing yes.)?

Code:

upvar xlateId       xlateId      
    xlateInList   xlateInList  
    xlateInTypes  xlateInTypes  
    xlateInVals   xlateInVals  
    xlateOutList  xlateOutList  
    xlateOutTypes xlateOutTypes  
    xlateOutVals  xlateOutVals

set filename [lindex $xlateInVals 0]

msgmetaset $mh DRIVERCTL “{FILESET {{OBFILE $filename}}}”

Thanks!

Jerry

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[Jim Kosloskey]

Jerry,

You are correct regarding xlateInVals.

However, you would use xpmmetaset not msgmetaset to set the metadata in an Xlate.

Also, unless you are COPYing MSH-10 to a temp variable for some other reason, there is no need (no harm but no need) to do that just to reference MSH-10 for this proc.

You could use MSH-10 directly as the Source for your purposes.

email: jim.kosloskey@jim-kosloskey.com 30+ years Cloverleaf, 61 years IT – old fart.

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