Re: Invalid screen characters

Chris,

What WRKDBF does (and what you can do in your app.) is to check for
character values less than hex'40'.  These tend to conflict with screen
attributes and frequently crash the display.  If a character is is found
that is less than hex'40', WRKDBF writes out a "box" character to the
display instead.  I don't have WRKDBF source available to me right this
minute so I can't tell you what the hex value is for the "box".  But I'll
check it tonight and let you know tomorrow.

Bill





Chris.Chambers@v2music.com@midrange.com on 11/12/2001 11:34:40 AM

Please respond to midrange-l@midrange.com

Sent by:  midrange-l-admin@midrange.com


To:   midrange-l@midrange.com
cc:
Subject:  Invalid screen characters




On writing a screen from a COBOL program I get the following message after
the
program crashes:


Data sent to device QPADEV0005 not valid.  Negative response code is
  10050111.

I have fields which contain characters that are not displayable - How can I
avoid this error ? -
Is there some keyword I can code into the screen DDS to allow these
characters
to be displayed

(the same data file containing these characters does not crash
when accessed via WRKDBF)




_______________________________________________
This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list
To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options,
visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l
or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com
Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives
at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.




--

NOTICE:  The information contained in this electronic mail transmission is
intended by Convergys Corporation for the use of the named individual or
entity to which it is directed and may contain information that is
privileged or otherwise confidential.  If you have received this electronic
mail transmission in error, please delete it from your system without
copying or forwarding it, and notify the sender of the error by reply email
or by telephone (collect), so that the sender's address records can be
corrected.